Title: William Wordsworth - Wikipedia
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William Wordsworth
Contents
Early life
Relationship with Annette Vallon
First publication and Lyrical Ballads
The Borderers
Germany and move to the Lake District
Marriage and children
Autobiographical work and Poems, in Two Volumes
The Prospectus
Religious beliefs
Laureateship and other honours
Death
In popular culture
Major works
References
Further reading
External links

Content: William Wordsworth - Wikipedia
William Wordsworth
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English Romantic poet
"Wordsworth" redirects here. For other uses, see Wordsworth (disambiguation). For the English composer, see William Wordsworth (composer). William Wordsworth
Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Haydon ( National Portrait Gallery ). Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
In office
6 April 1843 – 23 April 1850
Monarch
Victoria
Preceded by
Robert Southey
Succeeded by
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Personal details
Born
( 1770-04-07)
7 April 1770
Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
Died
23 April 1850
(1850-04-23)
(aged 80)
Rydal, Westmorland, England
Spouse (s)
Mary Hutchinson (1802–1850; his death)
Relatives
Christopher Wordsworth (sibling)
Dorothy Wordsworth (sibling)
Dora Wordsworth (child)
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge
Occupation
Poet
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 English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, 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". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.