Literature

William Wordsworth

Quick Facts

FactDetails
Birthdate7 April 1770
BirthplaceCockermouth, Cumberland, England
Deathdate23 April 1850
Place of DeathRydal, Westmorland, England
SpouseMary Hutchinson (m. 1802)
Children5, including Dora
Alma MaterSt John’s College, Cambridge
OccupationPoet
Notable WorksLyrical Ballads (1798), The Prelude
Poet Laureate Years6 April 1843 – 23 April 1850
Significant CollaboratorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
Family MembersDorothy Wordsworth (sister), Richard Wordsworth (eldest brother), John Wordsworth (brother), Christopher Wordsworth (youngest brother)
Early EducationAttended a school in Cockermouth and later in Penrith before moving to Hawkshead Grammar School
Debut as a WriterPublished a sonnet in The European Magazine in 1787
UniversityAttended St John’s College, Cambridge, and received his BA degree in 1791
European TourWent on a walking tour of Europe in 1790, exploring the Alps, France, Switzerland, and Italy

William Wordsworth Books

TitleYear
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud1807
The Prelude1850
Poems by William Wordsworth1845
Lyrical Ballads1798
Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey1798
The World Is Too Much with Us1807
The Solitary Reaper1807
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads1800
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood1807
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 18021802
Lucy Gray1800
Wordsworth: Poems,
We Are Seven1798
To a Butterfly1807
The Tables Turned1798
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
Michael1800
Three years she grew in sun and shower
The Excursion1814
Yarrow revisited1835
Resolution and Independence
Strange fits of passion have I known
Ode to Duty1807
The Major Works
The Lake Poets
The Idiot Boy1798
An evening walk
The Ruined Cottage: The Brothers Michael
Poems in Two Volumes1807
I travelled among unknown men
The recluse1880
Poetical works of Wordsworth1826
Sonnets by William Wordsworth
Elegiac Stanzas
The Two-part Prelude (1799)
Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems1798
Descriptive sketches1793
W. B. Yeats
Peter Bell1819
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Poems
Laodamia
Poor Susan
The White Doe of Rylstone1815
William Wordsworth: Selected Poems
Poems
A thrill of pleasure2003
William Wordsworth1984
The Salisbury Plain poems of William Wordsworth
Poets of Nature: A Meditation on the Human Connection with Earth

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