Tuesday, April 23, 2024

William Wordsworth's Death Anniversary


William Wordsworth, who passed away on 23 April 1850, aged 80, was  an important Romantic English poet, who in later life became the British Poet Laureate.

Wordsworth met fellow poet Samuel Coleridge in 1795 and together they became the leading figures of the English Romantic movement, publishing their "Lyrical Ballads" in 1798.

Wordsworth's most well-known poems include "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways", though his masterpiece is considered the autobiographical "The Prelude", addressed to Coleridge and published posthumously.

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