William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Born in England in 1770, poet William Wordsworth worked with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads (1798). The collection, which contained Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," introduced Romanticism to English poetry. Wordsworth also showed his affinity for nature with the famous poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." He became England's poet laureate in 1843, a role he held until his death in 1850. 1

• Poets.org

• The Poetry Foundation

• BBC

• Wordsworth Trust

• William Wordsworth's works

• Project Gutenberg

• Dorothy Wordsworth's journals