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William Wordsworth, b. 7 April 1770,
d. 23 April 1850, was one of the
greatest of the English romantic
poets, concentrating on the tempering
effect of naturalism, which was a
common theme of the time.
     Orphaned at the age of 13,
Wordsworth had a lonely childhood.
However, his later life was colorful,
traveling to many places abroad in
England and in Europe. He spent four
years at Cambridge (although he never
received a degree); a year in France,
where he fathered a daughter, whom he
subsequently abandoned with the
mother; six years in the south of
England, where he met his greatest
friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his
collaborator on many literary
projects; and a year in Germany. In
1799 he finally settled down with his
sister in Grasmere.
     Although a prolific poet, his
best works were done over the span of
only about a decade, including
"Michael" (1800), Ode: Intimations of
Immortality from Recollections of
Early Childhood (1802?), as well as
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"The World Is Too Much With Us". At
Coleridge's urging, he struggled to
form a long philosophical poem on
nature, man, and society, but the
poem was only partially completed,
and later into Wordsworth's life, he
retreated from his faith in nature
for more formal codes of human
behavior and morality. Many literary
authorities have proposed that
Wordsworth was an insecure man, first
from his isolated childhood and his
guilt at deserting his lover in
France; consequently, he came to rely
on Coleridge for his intellectualism
and his sister Dorothy for emotional
support. Whatever his personal
failures may have been, however, his
reputation as a great poet was
secure; he became Poet Laureat
in 1843.

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