ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -William Wordsworth, (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England-died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland), English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth died on 23 April 1850 and was buried in Grasmere churchyard. His great autobiographical poem, ‘The Prelude’, which he had worked on since 1798, was published after his death.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth died at home at Rydal Mount from an aggravated case of pleurisy on 23 April 1850, and was buried at St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.” Wordsworth’s deep love for the “beauteous forms” of the natural world was established early.