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William Wordsworth

1770 - 1850

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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) 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 (1798). 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Wordsworth has received more than 9,602,565 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). William Wordsworth is the 332nd most popular writer (up from 364th in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 285th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Writer.

William Wordsworth is most famous for his 1798 poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Wordsworth ranks 332 out of 7,302. Before him are Peter Drucker, Ève Curie, Pär Lagerkvist, André Malraux, Théophile Gautier, and Coen brothers. After him are Mikhail Sholokhov, David Woodard, Paul Celan, Paul Éluard, Lorenzo Valla, and Wilhelm Grimm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, William Wordsworth ranks 7. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Frederick William III of Prussia, Friedrich Hölderlin, Bertel Thorvaldsen, and Louis-Nicolas Davout. After him are François Gérard, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Princess Carolina of Parma, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Anton Reicha, and Manuel Belgrano. Among people deceased in 1850, William Wordsworth ranks 4. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Louis Philippe I, and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac. After him are Zachary Taylor, Daoguang Emperor, Báb, José de San Martín, Marie Tussaud, Frédéric Bastiat, Louise of Orléans, and Johann Heinrich von Thünen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Wordsworth ranks 236 out of 8,785. Before him are Clement Attlee (1883), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Harold Godwinson (1022), Syd Barrett (1946), Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900), and Benjamin Disraeli (1804). After him are John Law (1671), Edward the Black Prince (1330), John Constable (1776), Jeremy Irons (1948), Ken Miles (1918), and Ken Follett (1949).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Wordsworth ranks 29. Before him are Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), William Golding (1911), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Anne Brontë (1820), and C. S. Lewis (1898). After him are Ken Follett (1949), Ian Fleming (1908), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), John Keats (1795), Graham Greene (1904), and John Galsworthy (1867).

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