William Wordsworth Biography

William Wordsworth biography

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NAME: William Wordsworth
OCCUPATION: Poet
BIRTH DATE: April 07, 1770
DEATH DATE: April 23, 1850
EDUCATION: Cambridge University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Cockermouth, England
PLACE OF DEATH: Rydal Mount, England

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William Wordsworth was a poet regarded as the central figure in the initiation of English Romanticism.

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William Wordsworth was with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads (1798), often considered to have launched the English Romantic movement. Wordsworth's contributions include “Tintern Abbey.” His poetry is perhaps most original in its vision of the relation between man and the natural world, a vision that culminated in the metaphor of nature as emblematic of the mind of God.