William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth 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).
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- Cockermouth
- Educated at
- St John's CollegeHawkshead Grammar School
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1908
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