num_pages: 120
description: Poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was the leader of the Romantic movement in British literature. He was strongly influenced by the ideology of the French Revolution and by the landscape of Britain's Lake Country, where he lived for most of his life. Among his most famous poems are "TinternAbbey" (published in Lyrical Ballads , which he wrote with his friend and colleague Samuel Taylor Coleridge), " Intimations of Immortality," "The Solitary Reaper," "Daffodils," and numerous sonnets. Wordsworth's poetry is a staple of the U.S. high school English curriculum, and his home, DoveCottage, is a much-visited tourist site in Britain's Lake District.About the The British Library is in a unique position when it comes to biographical research, especially concerning British authors. This revered institution boasts the world's largest collection of original manuscripts, as well as an outstanding collection of letters, personal diaries, first editions, andother literary treasures. The titles in this series take full advantage of this vast source of documentary evidence by illustrating each of these lively writers' biographies with state-of-the-art facsimiles of pertinent documents and reproductions of art from the period. Penned by expertbiographers, each of these books also contains an index, further reading list, and a chronology of the writer's life.
language: English
title: William Wordsworth
titlecomplete: William Wordsworth (British Library Writers' Lives Series)
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Oxford University Press