William Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England- died April 23, 1850. The English poet was a co-author of Lyrical Ballads (1798), helped launch the English Romantic movement.  Wordsworth was the second of five children and lost both parents at a young age. The boys in the Wordsworth family were sent off to grammar school by their uncles. There Wordsworth was educated in the arts of literature, classics, and mathematics. Later in life, Wordsworth studied at St. John's College, Cambridge. After graduation, Wordsworth was living with his sister Dorothy and became friends with a poet Samual Taylor Coleridge. Through their friendship bloomed Lyrical Ballads. Sadly Coleridge and Wordsworth did not agree on everything, during the process of creating and publishing Lyrical Ballads, and they didn't remain friends for long. 

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