William Wordsworth
English poet
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wikipedia
Born: April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, United Kingdom
Died: April 23, 1850 (age 80 years), Rydal Mount and Gardens, Rydal, United Kingdom
Influenced by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, John Milton, and more
Children: Dora Wordsworth, Thomas Wordsworth, Catherine Wordsworth, and more
Spouse: Mary Hutchinson (m. 1802–1850)
Poems
Books
Show more
Show less
People also ask
What is William Wordsworth best known for?
What are the words of "I wandered lonely as a cloud"?
What are the three famous poems of William Wordsworth?
What did William Wordsworth die of?
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in ...
William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects. He is remembered as a poet of ...
William Wordsworth, English poet who was a central figure in the English Romantic revolution in poetry. He was especially known for Lyrical Ballads (1798), ...
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils.
One of England's most beloved poets and a pioneer of Romanticism, William Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in 1843.
William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, on April 7, 1770. Wordsworth's mother died when he was eight—this experience shapes much of ...
A white marble life size figure of poet William Wordsworth is in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The figure is seated with crossed legs.
“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
Apr 6, 2020 ˇ The image of Wordsworth as a solitary, a celebrant of alone-ness and the private pleasure of the inward eye. It was an image with much currency during his ...
William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English ...