William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet (1770-1850) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 80
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Something wrong?He turned English poetry inside out in 1798 with a slim book that made everyday speech and rural life the stuff of serious verse - a pivot so sharp it named an entire literary age.
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Author of "The Excursion." (BM 1859,0625.119)
Cattermole's Newark CastleIn their own words 10
, O for a single hour of that Dundee, Who on that day the word of onset gave!
Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!
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Born in April 1770, Wordsworth teamed with Samuel Taylor Coleridge to publish Lyrical Ballads in 1798, the collection that launched the Romantic Age in English literature. His life's central work was The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded repeatedly; known to friends as "The Poem to Coleridge," it was published only after his death by his wife, who gave it the title it now carries. He was named Poet Laureate in 1843 and held the post until he died of pleurisy seven years later, on 23 April 1850.
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