Original: 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.
Simplified: William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was an important poet of the Romantic Age in English literature.