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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: William Wordsworth, Saint Ninian, Edmund Grindal, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Brayton, Joseph Armstrong, William Henry Bragg, Fletcher Christian, Oliver Turvey, Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, William Jackson, William Gilpin, John Peel, William Brownrigg, Russell Pepperell, Douglas Clark, Bennett Lewis, Richard Layton, Syd Walmsley, Anthony Bacon, John Pidgeon, Georgiana Molloy, Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, James Moyes, Humphrey Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre, Richard Ellwood, Albert Pepperell, Kathleen Raven, Christopher Stockdale, Robert Selby Taylor, John English, Stanley Pepperell, Malcolm Woods, Neil Boustead, John Adams, 1st Baron Adams, Peter Gorley, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 10th Baronet, George Graham, David Lupton, Robert de Ros, Storer Clouston, William Little, Frank Spottiswoode, Edward Troughton, Christian of Whithorn, Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, George Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre, John Hind, Mary Robinson, Septimus Collinson, William Fell, Henry Hall Dixon, John Atkinson, Winifred Waddell. Excerpt: William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge." Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland-part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District. His sister, the poet and diarist Do...
