English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, co-founded English Romanticism with the 1798 collection Lyrical Ballads, contributing its 1800 Preface, which called for poetry written in the real language of ordinary men rather than the elevated diction of the previous century. His long autobiographical poem The Prelude, revised across his lifetime and published only after his death in 1850, became one of English poetry's central accounts of the growth of a poet's mind.
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Original Language William Wordsworth
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Co-founders of English Romanticism through Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Ode, Forms Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.- William Wordsworth entry
- Works Attributed: Lyrical Ballads
- Associated With: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- In Movement: Romanticism
View the Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Princeton University Press- In Genre: Lyric Poetry
- Associated With: The Ode
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