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Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) was an English poet. Born on April 7, 1770 in a lawyer's home in Kirkmouth, County Cumberland, northern, he died on April 23, 1850 in Ridomont. His mother lost at the age of 8. Five years later, his father left him again. Relatives and relatives sent him to a boarding school near his hometown. He entered Cambridge University in 1787, studied Greek and Latin literature, and studied Italian, French and Spanish. The first poem was completed in 1784. In 1797, he met the poet Coleridge. The following year, the two jointly published "Lyrical Ballad Collection". From 1798 to 1799, he traveled to Germany and wrote "Picking Dried Fruit","Ruth" and the series of poems "Lucy", and began to write the autobiographical poem "Overture". Wordsworth had artistic influences on Shelley, Byron and Keats.

The golden period of Wordsworth's poetry was from 1797 to 1807. In 1843, he was named the British Poet Laureate. His works also include "The Signs of Immortality" and the long philosophical poem "The Hermit" composed of two parts: "Prelude" and "Wandering".

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