Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Poetic Revolution

William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, initiated the Romantic movement) in English literature with his Lyrical Ballads, 1798). In the English poetic village, he was arranged to sit on the mat, along with William Shakespeare and John Milton. William Wordsworth was elected Poet Laureate of England from 1843 until his death in 1850.