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William Wordsworth

1770 - 1850

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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "The Poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Wordsworth is the 401st most popular writer (down from 332nd in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 236th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Writer.

William Wordsworth is most famous for his 1798 poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey."

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Among writers, William Wordsworth ranks 401 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Roth, Christopher Marlowe, Giosuè Carducci, Harry Martinson, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, and Frank Herbert. After him are Verner von Heidenstam, Ghalib, Graham Greene, Susan Sontag, Livius Andronicus, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr..

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Among people born in 1770, William Wordsworth ranks 7. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Frederick William III of Prussia, Friedrich Hölderlin, Bertel Thorvaldsen, and Louis-Nicolas Davout. After him are William Clark, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, François Gérard, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, and Anton Reicha. Among people deceased in 1850, William Wordsworth ranks 6. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Louis Philippe I, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, José de San Martín, and Zachary Taylor. After him are Báb, Daoguang Emperor, Marie Tussaud, Louise of Orléans, Frédéric Bastiat, and Lin Zexu.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, William Wordsworth ranks 382 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Alec Guinness (1914), David Lloyd George (1863), Arthur Evans (1851), Robert Fripp (1946), and Roger Penrose (1931). After him are James George Frazer (1854), Saint Walpurga (710), Clement Attlee (1883), Francis Galton (1822), Frederic Leighton (1830), and David Prowse (1935).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Wordsworth ranks 37. Before him are William Golding (1911), Roald Dahl (1916), John Keats (1795), Jane Hawking (1944), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), and Christopher Marlowe (1564). After him are Graham Greene (1904), John Galsworthy (1867), Ian Fleming (1908), Philip Larkin (1922), Thomas De Quincey (1785), and Samuel Butler (1835).

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