Title: William Wordsworth - Wikipedia
Headings: William Wordsworth
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: 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. Contents
1 Early life
2 Relationship with Annette Vallon
3 First publication and Lyrical Ballads
4 The Borderers
5 Germany and move to the Lake District
6 Marriage and children
7 Autobiographical work and Poems, in Two Volumes
8 The Prospectus
9 Religious beliefs
10 Laureateship and other honours
11 Death
12 In popular culture
13 Major works
14 References
15 Further reading
16 External links
Early life
Main article: Early life of William Wordsworth
The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland, now known as Cumbria, part of the scenic region in northwestern England known as the Lake District. William's sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer;