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A Short Biography of William Wordsworth

Author Name:

William Wordsworth

Born As:

William Wordsworth

Other Names:

William Wordsworth

Born:

7 Apr 1770

Died:

23 Apr 1850




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Selected Works:

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems - 1798

Simon Lee
We Are Seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
The Thorn
Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems - 1800

Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Strange fits of passion have I known
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
Three years she grew
A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal
I travelled among unknown men
Lucy Gray
The Two April Mornings
Nutting
The Ruined Cottage
Michael

Poems, in Two Volumes - 1807

Resolution and Independence
I wandered lonely as a cloud
My Heart Leaps Up
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Ode to Duty
The Solitary Reaper
Elegiac Stanzas
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
London, 1802
The world is too much with us

The Excursion - 1814
Prospectus to The Recluse

Ecclesiastical Sketches - 1822

Mutability
The Prelude - 1850, posthumous
The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind.                          
Mother Ann Cookson
Father John Wordsworth, the second of five children.

Annette Vallon, a French woman, gave birth to a daughter Caroline.
First wife Mary Hutchinson, five children.                          
Along with with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.