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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth in the Lake District of England, and was educated at the University of Cambridge. As a young man he was fired with enthusiasm for the French Revolution, but the year he spent in France after graduating left him disillusioned with radical politics. He turned more seriously to literature and, in collaboration with his friend Samuel Coleridge, produced Lyrical Ballads (1798). His return to the Lake District in 1799 marked the beginning of his most productive period as a poet, during which he wrote his most famous long poem, The Prelude (1805).
Lyrical Ballads
Selected Poems
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
The Prelude
Wordsworth: Poems

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Lyrical Ballads
Selected Poems
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
The Prelude
Wordsworth: Poems