William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literaturewith their joint publication Lyrical Ballads(1798).

William Wordsworth
Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon (National Portrait Gallery).
Born	7 April 1770 Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
Died	23 April 1850 (aged 80) Cumberland, England
Occupation	Poet
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge
Literary movement	Romanticism
Notable works	Lyrical Ballads, Poems, in Two Volumes, The Excursion, The Prelude, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge".^[1]Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.^[2]