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William Wordsworth
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Was born born on April 7, 1770 in Cumbria, an area in north-west England.
He was educated at Hawkshead Grammar School then Cambridge University, where he graduated in 1791.
Wordsworth visited France in 1790 during the French Revolution and supported the new government's republican ideals.
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Wordsworth became Poet Laureate of England in 1843, a position he held for the rest of his life.
He died at the age of 80 on April 23, 1850.
Wordsworth is considered one of the first English Romantics as he stresses the importance of feeling, instinct and pleasure rather than poetic elegance.
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In Wordsworth's view, the poet is inseparable from Nature which represents his main source of inspiration, joy and emotions.
For ex. he gave voice to the growing anxiety about the effects of the industrial revolution on the natural environment.
With his poems Wordsworth returns to celebrate Nature: insisting on the importance of preserving it.
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