Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

Dates

Existence: 1770 - 1850

Biography

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). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be "The Prelude," a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

William Wordsworth letters

Item 1

Identifier: Mss 819259

Mss 819259

Date(s): 1819-04-09 to 1843-04-24

Abstract

In English.

William Wordsworth sonnet

Item 1

Identifier: Mss 839564.1

Mss 839564.1

Date(s): 1839-10-14

Scope and Contents

["At Florence"]. Fair copy, in Wordsworth's hand, of a sonnet published in "Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837" written on the final blank leaf of Lady Bentinck's copy of "The Sonnets of William Wordsworth."

William Wordsworth sonnet

Item 1

Identifier: Mss 839564.2

Mss 839564.2

Date(s): 1839-10-14

Scope and Contents

"The Pine of Monte Carlo at Rome." Fair copy, in Wordsworth's hand, of a sonnet published in "Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837" written on the final blank leaf of Lady Bentinck's copy of "The Sonnets of William Wordsworth."