William Wordsworth
1770 – 1850 English poet
The poet who launched English Romanticism.
- Religion
- Moved from youthful radicalism to a devout Anglicanism, with a lifelong sense of the divine in nature.
- Affiliations
- Poet Laureate of Britain. No secret society.
Wordsworth, with Coleridge, opened the Romantic age in English poetry with Lyrical Ballads, written in plain speech about ordinary life and nature. His long autobiographical poem The Prelude traced the growth of a poet's mind. He made nature and memory central to modern poetry.