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William Wordsworth
1770–1850
A central voice of English Romanticism, his poems turned everyday speech, memory, and the natural world into something luminous and lasting. He is especially remembered for helping launch the Romantic movement with Lyrical Ballads and for the long autobiographical poem The Prelude.
15 Audiobooks
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 4 (of 8)
by William Wordsworth
Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1
by William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)
by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 2
by William Wordsworth
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 2 (of 8)
by William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1
by William Wordsworth
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8)
by William Wordsworth
Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 2
by William Wordsworth
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 (of 8)
by William Wordsworth
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8)
by William Wordsworth
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth For the First Time Collected, With Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes.
by William Wordsworth
Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson
by William Wordsworth, Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8)
by William Wordsworth
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8)
by William Wordsworth
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 (of 8)
by William Wordsworth
About the author
Born in Cockermouth in England's Lake District in 1770, William Wordsworth grew up surrounded by the landscapes that would shape much of his poetry. He studied at Cambridge and lived through the era of the French Revolution, experiences that informed both his political hopes and his later reflections on memory, nature, and human feeling.
Wordsworth became one of the defining poets of the Romantic age. With Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he published Lyrical Ballads in 1798, a book widely seen as a starting point for English Romanticism. His poetry favored the language of ordinary people and found deep meaning in rural life, childhood, and the emotional power of the natural world.
Over the course of his life, he wrote many of his best-known works, including "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," and The Prelude. He later served as Poet Laureate of Britain, and he died in 1850 at Rydal Mount. His work remains influential for its clarity, inwardness, and lasting sense of wonder before the natural world.