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WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850)

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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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William Wordsworth was a British poet who wrote about nature and the English countryside. Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. After studying at Cambridge University, he spent a year in France. He became a passionate supporter of the French people's struggle for freedom in the French Revolution. Wordsworth had begun to write poetry when he returned to Britain. He became a friend of the British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The two poets published several of their works together in a collection called Lyrical Ballads (1798).

In 1799, Wordsworth moved to Grasmere ...

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