id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9703 William Wordsworth - Wikipedia .html text/html 5618 760 74 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). Main article: Early life of William Wordsworth William's sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. Dove Cottage (Town End, Grasmere) – home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1799–1808; home of Thomas De Quincey, 1809–1820 Following the death of Robert Southey in 1843 Wordsworth became Poet Laureate. Main article: List of poems by William Wordsworth Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: A Life, Oxford University Press, 1989, Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: A Life, Oxford University Press, 1989, Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth, A Biography: The Early Years, 1770–1803 v. Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: A Biography: The Later Years, 1803–1850 v. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9703.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9703.txt