The 1700s is a well-known time period that was filled with great history and influential figures who are still being talked about today. One of those figures was the very famous English poet named William Wordsworth. He was a man who wrote many great works and some are still being read today. His works are being read today to educate students and to teach them about great poetry. His messages can still relate to us today because of their actual content and useful meanings. A few examples of these famous poems would be, I Wandered As A Lonely Cloud, Lyrical Ballads, and The Prelude. They hold strong and meaningful messages that are still useful to readers today, which is why his fame and legacy continue to live on, even after he has passed. William wrote over three hundred and eighty seven poems during the time periods of 1790 to 1850, having written for sixty years. He wrote during the Romantic Period which was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement. The French Revolution was going on and also Parliament reforms in Great Britain and much more.
William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in
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William was eighty years old when he died from pleurisy. A few months after his death, his wife Mary, published a very famous work of his know as The Prelude and it was an autobiographical poem. William’s death was very hard for Dorothy because she was very close to him and also she was very ill which his death did not help her out at all. When William died, his wife, three sons and daughter were all still living and they all presumably struggled to cope with his death . William died in Rydal Mount and he died in the same house that his daughter died in. Which was a nice thing because he and his daughter were very close. William lived a long and valuable life and he accomplished many things during it such as publishing and creating many poems and getting married and starting a