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William Wordsworth, English poet who was a central figure in the English Romantic revolution in poetry. He was especially known for Lyrical Ballads (1798), which he wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Learn more about Wordsworth’s life and career, including his other notable books.
Arguably, William Wordsworth’s most famous poem is ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud‘. An extract of his magnum opus, ‘ The Prelude ,’ the poem is centered around the positive impact that the natural world can have on the mood of a person.
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).
William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects. He is remembered as a poet of spiritual and epistemological speculation, a poet concerned with the human relationship to nature and a fierce advocate of using the vocabulary and speech patterns of common people in poetry.
William Wordsworth, who rallied for “common speech” within poems and argued against the poetic biases of the period, wrote some of the most influential poetry in Western literature, including his most famous work, The Prelude, which is often considered to be the crowning achievement of English romanticism.
8 kwi 2015 · The most famous example of Wordsworth making us see the familiar anew is his best-known poem Daffodils. A vision of the delicate wild flowers returns to him “in vacant or in pensive mood” bringing pleasure to the solitary.
Wordsworth's most famous poem, 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' was written at Dove Cottage in 1804. In 1802, Wordsworth married a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson.
