William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet born in Cockermouth, England. Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he helped launch the English Romantic movement with their book Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Some of Wordsworth's most famous poems include "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and excerpts from The Prelude, considered his masterwork, which was published posthumously. Wordsworth had a long career as a poet and spent much of his life in the Lake District of England where he drew inspiration for his poetry.
3. Born: 7 April 1770,
Cockermouth,
United Kingdom
DIED: 23 April 1850,
Rydal Mount and Gardens,
Rydal, United Kingdom
4. • ∆William Wordsworth, English poet
whose "Lyrical Ballads (1798)", written
with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped
launch the English Romantic movement.
• ∆Wordsworth was born in the Lake District of
northern England he was the second of five
children of a modestly prosperous estate
manager.
7. # Wordsworth’s earliest poetry was
published in 1793 in the collections An
Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
# Equally important in the poetic life of
Wordsworth was his 1795 meeting with the poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was with Coleridge that
Wordsworth published the famous Lyrical Ballads
(J. & A. Arch) in 1798.
8. Wordsworth’s most famous
work, The Prelude (Edward
Moxon, 1850), is considered
by many to be the crowning
achievement of English
Romanticism. The poem,
revised numerous times,
chronicles the spiritual life
of the poet and marks the
birth of a new genre of
poetry.
9. Wordsworth worked on The Prelude
throughout his life, the poem was
published posthumously.William
Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount on
April 23, 1850.
10. 2016 Mutability
2015 Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes
1820 On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a
Storm
1807 It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
1802 Travelling
1798 Lines Written in Early Spring
1807 The Sun Has Long Been Set
1800 She dwelt among the untrodden ways
1815 [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind]
1807 The Solitary Reap
WORKS
11. 1804 from The Kitten and Falling Leaves
1807 Perfect Woman
1798 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on
Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798
1807 My Heart Leaps Up
1798 We Are Seven
1807 Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of
Early Childhood
1807 [I wandered lonely as a Cloud]
1807 Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
1807 The World Is Too Much With Us
1800 A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
12. "Fill your paper with the
breathings of your heart. "
- William Wordsworth