William Wordsworth

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English poet Romantic poet human poet

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet renowned for his nature-inspired verse and for helping launch the Romantic Age in English literature.

Aliases (1)

Wordsworth ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	English poet → Romantic poet → human → poet →
causeOfDeath	pleurisy →
child	Dora Wordsworth → John Wordsworth (son of William Wordsworth) →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain →
dateOfBirth	1770-04-07 →
dateOfDeath	1850-04-23 →
educatedAt	Hawkshead Grammar School → St John's College, Cambridge NERFINISHED →
endTime	1850 →
ethnicGroup	English →
familyName	Wordsworth →
genre	poetry →
givenName	William →
influenced	Alfred Tennyson → John Keats → Percy Bysshe Shelley → Samuel Taylor Coleridge → Victorian poetry →
influencedBy	Edmund Spenser → John Milton → William Shakespeare →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	Romanticism →
name	William Wordsworth →
notableWork	I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud → Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey → Lyrical Ballads → Ode: Intimations of Immortality → The Prelude →
placeOfBirth	Cockermouth → Cumberland → England →
placeOfDeath	England → Rydal Mount → Westmorland →
positionHeld	Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom →
religion	Anglicanism →
residence	Dove Cottage → Rydal Mount →
sexOrGender	male →
sibling	Christopher Wordsworth → Dorothy Wordsworth → John Wordsworth → Richard Wordsworth →
spouse	Mary Hutchinson →
startTime	1843 →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alfred, Lord Tennyson → Elizabeth Barrett Browning → Fireside Poets → Percy Bysshe Shelley → Robert Frost → Seamus Heaney →	influencedBy
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard → Robert Burns → Thomas Gray → William Godwin →	influenced
Lake District → Romanticism →	associatedWith
Samuel Taylor Coleridge →	closeFriend
Samuel Taylor Coleridge →	coAuthorWith
William Wordsworth ("Wordsworth") →	familyName
Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty →	hasCulturalAssociation
Grasmere →	hasGraveOf
Sea of Ice →	hasHistoricalVisitor
Royal Society of Literature →	hasNotableFellow
Grasmere →	hasNotableResident
William Wordsworth →	name
Poets’ Corner →	notableMemorial