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William Wordsworth
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Wordsworth was born in 1770, into a wealthy family in the Lake District. He lived until 1850 and was Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death. By many, he is considered to have launched the Romantic movement. He travelled widely in Europe and worked closely with Coleridge to produce the Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth spent a year in France in which time he had a child with Annette Vallon and became a firm supporter of the French Revolution. He later returned to England, marrying Mary Hutchinson. He lived the longest and healthiest life of all the Romantic poets and was appreciated for his writing while alive as illustrated by his being made Poet Laureate in 1843.