Description
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was born in Cockermouth, in
the Lake District. His Lyrical Ballads, written in collaboration with
Coleridge, was published in 1798, and shortly afterwards he settled
in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy. Inspired in his
early manhood by the French Revolution, he grew disillusioned
with revolutionary politics and in later life became decidedly
conservative. He left a vast body of work, ranging from delicately
simple lyrics to deeply meditative odes – his most fully-realised
ambitious work being The Prelude.