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William Wordsworth (7 April – 23 April ) was an important poet of the Romantic Age in English literature.

Many people think that The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years is his masterpiece.

Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from , until his death in

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Early life and education

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Wordsworth was born as second of five children in the Lake District.

After the death of his mother in , his father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School. In his father, a lawyer and a solicitor, died.

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Although many aspects of his boyhood were positive, he remembered times of loneliness and anxiety. It took him many years, and much writing, to recover from the death of his parents.

Wordsworth went to St John's College, Cambridge in Three years later, in , he visited RevolutionaryFrance and supported the Republican movement, although the Reign of Terror later made him change his mind.(see Prelude