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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.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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