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William Wordsworth

1770–1850 · England · The Romantics

With Coleridge, Wordsworth launched English Romanticism in Lyrical Ballads (1798), writing about nature and ordinary people in plain language. He lived in the Lake District, which inspired “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, and became Poet Laureate in 1843.

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Poems by William Wordsworth

Public-domain poems, free to read and print.

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Are William Wordsworth’s poems free to read?

Yes. William Wordsworth’s poems are in the public domain, and you can read 6 of them here or as a flip book.

What are William Wordsworth’s best-known works?

Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge) (1798), Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), The Prelude (1850).

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