Date of birth: 7 April 1770
Date of death: 23 April 1850
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William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. ([Source][1].)

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

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