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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English
Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic
Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical
Ballads.
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a
semiautobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded
a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to
which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was
England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
