William Wordsworth





William Wordsworth

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born
in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England, The United Kingdom
April 07, 1770

died
April 23, 1850

gender
male

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William Wordsworth was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical 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.


Average rating: 3.96 · 11,675 ratings · 365 reviews · 180 distinct works · Similar authors
Lyrical Ballads
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 4,269 ratings — published 1798 — 57 editions
The Major Works
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 3,113 ratings — published 1904 — 4 editions
The Prelude
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,111 ratings — published 1800 — 36 editions
The Works of William Wordsw...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 1959 — 15 editions
Selected Poetry of William ...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 667 ratings — published 1913 — 50 editions
Ode: Intimations Of Immorta...
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
Wordsworth: Poems
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1802 — 48 editions
Lines Composed a Few Miles ...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2002
I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
Favorite Poems
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 88 ratings2 editions
More books by William Wordsworth…
“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”
William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
William Wordsworth

“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
William Wordsworth

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