Biography
English Romantic poet whose 1798 Lyrical Ballads, co-authored with Coleridge, marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in English literature. Wordsworth aimed to write in 'the real language of men' about ordinary subjects — a revolutionary departure from the formal diction of his Augustan predecessors. He was named Poet Laureate in 1843, by which point his radicalism had long since cooled into conservative Anglicanism.