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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
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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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Average rating: 3.98 · 44,233 ratings · 2,242 reviews · 2,152 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lyrical Ballads 3.95 avg rating — 13,061 ratings — published 1798 — 452 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 — 7,053 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 — 4,195 ratings — published 1850 — 219 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 — 2,213 ratings — published 2002 — 91 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 — 2,016 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 4.12 avg rating — 1,354 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 — 1,323 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 4.20 avg rating — 653 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 — 554 ratings — published 1802 — 8 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 3.60 avg rating — 613 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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Quotes by William Wordsworth (?)

“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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August 2023 Old School Classics Poll

Washington Square by Henry James, 1880. 223 pp

48 votes, 23.4%

The Symposium by Plato, -380, 90 pp

45 votes, 22.0%

Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard, 1889, 278 pp

32 votes, 15.6%

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, 1869, 672 pp

30 votes, 14.6%

The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós, 1875, 471 pp

25 votes, 12.2%

The Prelude by William Wordsworth 1805 704pp

13 votes, 6.3%

Esther Waters by George Moore, 1894, 432pp

12 votes, 5.9%

205 total votes

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