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William Wordsworth

Born

in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England

April 07, 1770

Died

April 23, 1850

Genre

Poetry

Influences

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Macp ...more

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years, which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which, it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
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	Lyrical Ballads 3.95 avg rating — 13,311 ratings — published 1798 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Major Works by William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 7,072 ratings — published 1805 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prelude 3.88 avg rating — 4,280 ratings — published 1850 — 218 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth, David Bromwich (Introduction), Mark van Doren (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 2,252 ratings — published 2002 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Works of William Wordsworth 4.16 avg rating — 2,039 ratings — published 1850 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud 4.11 avg rating — 1,414 ratings — published 1807 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey 3.96 avg rating — 1,400 ratings — published 1798 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 4.21 avg rating — 672 ratings — published 1807 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wordsworth: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by William Wordsworth, Peter Washington (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 1802 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preface to the Lyrical Ballads 3.59 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1800 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart

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“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
― William Wordsworth

tags: glory, hope, poetry, strength

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John Keats

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