William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is the poet responsible, along with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge, for ushering in the Romantic Age. Wordsworth is noted for Lyrical Ballads, a book he shared with Coleridge, and his masterpiece poem is considered The Prelude. Wordsworth believed that poems should be spontaneous, contain an overflow of feeling, and that they be written in the language of men; by that Wordsworth meant rural workingmen. In 1843 Wordsworth became Poet Laureate.
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