Summary: <p><strong>William Wordsworth</strong> (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Romantic</a> poet who, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>, helped to launch the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Romantic Age</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">English literature</a> with their joint publication <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Lyrical Ballads</em></a> (1798).</p><br><p>Wordsworth's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>magnum opus</em></a> is generally considered to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prelude" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Prelude</em></a>, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge".</p><br><p>Wordsworth was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Poet Laureate</a> from 1843 until his death from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurisy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pleurisy</a> on 23 April 1850.</p><br><p>-- Bio via Wikipedia. </p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
