William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet. He was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, and educated at Hawkshead Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. Wordsworth is best known for his role in launching the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of "Lyrical Ballads" in 1798, co-authored with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His major works include "The Prelude," "Tintern Abbey," and "Ode: Intimations of Immortality." Wordsworth served as Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. His poetry is noted for its celebration of nature, emotion, and the human spirit.

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Works by William Wordsworth

• Expostulation and Reply (1817)
• The Tables Turned (1798)
• Animal Tranquillity and Decay (1816)
• Goody Blake and Harry Gill (1798)
• The Last of the Flock (1815)
• Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree, which Stands Near the Lake of Estwaithe, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, Yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect (1818)
• The Foster-Mother's Tale (1815)
• The Thorn (1798)
• We are Seven (1798)
• Anecdote for Fathers (1810)
• Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House, and Sent by my Little Boy to the Person to whom they are Addressed (1807)
• The Female Vagrant (1798)
• Lines Written in Early Spring (1798)
• The Nightingale (1807)
• The Idiot Boy (1798)
• Poor Susan Moans, Poor Susan Groans; (1798)
• Love (1807)
• The Mad Mother (1798)
• Lines Written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour (1798)
• The Ancient Mariner (1798)
• There was a Boy (1800)
• The Brothers (1799)
• Ellen Irwin, when she Sate (1807)
• Strange Fits of Passion I have Known (1798)
• She Dwelt Among Th' Untrodden Ways (1807)
• The Waterfall and the Eglantine (1818)
• The Oak and the Broom (1818)
• The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (1798)
• Lucy Gray (1806)
• 'Tis Said, that some have Died for Love (1798)
• The Idle Shepherd-Boys (1816)
• Poor Susan (1798)
• Inscription (1815)
• Lines Written with a Pencil Upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (an out-House) on the Island at Grasmere (1807)
• To a Sexton (1827)
• Andrew Jones (1798)
• Ruth (1798)
• Lines Written with a Slate-Pencil, Upon a Stone, the Largest of a Heap Lying Near a Deserted Quarry, Upon One of the Islands at Rydale (1819)
• Lines Written on a Tablet in a School (1807)
• The Two April Mornings (1807)