William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement. Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.
English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement. Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.