William Wordsworth
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English Romantic poet
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Why Is William Wordsworth Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads . Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge".
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What Are William Wordsworth's Academic Contributions?
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