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William Wordsworth

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(7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850)

• William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770
• He was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English Literature with the publication of Lyrical Ballads
• Wordsworth masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude
• Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death

Early Life

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• He is the second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson
• Wordsworth father rarely taught him poetry including that of Milton, Shakespeare, and Spenser
• After the death of their mother in 1778 John Wordsworth sent William to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire
• He had already learnt to read and write in a small school in Cockermouth when his mother was alive
• It was at the school that Wordsworth was to meet Mary who would be his future wife

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