Born: 7-Apr-1770
Birthplace: Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
Died: 23-Apr-1850
Location of death: Rydal Mount, Ambleside, England
Cause of death: Respiratory failure
Remains: Buried, St. Oswald's Churchyard, Grasmere, Cumbria, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: England
Executive summary: English romantic poet laureate

Poet Laureate of England, 1843–50.

Father: (d. when he was 13)
Mother: (d. when he was 7)
Sister: Dorothy (b. 1771, d. 1855)
Brother: John (sea captain, d. 1805 drowning)
Girlfriend: Annette Vallon (one daughter)
Daughter: Caroline (b. Dec-1792)

    High School: (Hawkshead, Lake District)
    University: St. John's College, Cambridge University

Is the subject of books:
William Wordsworth: A Life, 1989, BY: Stephen Gill

Author of books:
Descriptive Sketches (1793)
Lyrical Ballads (1798, poetry, mostly his poems)
Poems, in Two Volumes (1807, poetry)
The Excursion (1814, poetry)
Poems (1815, poetry)
The White Doe of Rylstone (1815, poetry)
Thanksgiving Ode (1816, poetry)
Peter Bell (1819, poetry)
The Waggoner (1819, poetry)
The River Duddon (1820, poetry)
Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822, poetry)
Poems Chiefly of Early and Late Years (1842, poetry)
The Borderers (1842, poetry)
The Prelude, or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (1850, poetry)

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