Portrait of William Wordsworth

Romantic

William Wordsworth

1770 – 1850

English Romantic poet (1770–1850)

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Kingdom of Great Britain
  • British
  • Romanticism
  • Lake Poets
  • Literary Theory
UGC NET importance

About

William Wordsworth 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).

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Portrait by Benjamin Haydon (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons.

Life on the Timeline

1770 – 1850
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Major Works

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