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William Wordsworth was a major English romantic poet. He was born on April 7, 1770 in Cumberland, Lake District of England. His father was an attorney. In 1778, when he was only eight years old, his mother died-and in the same year he went to Grammar School. In his childhood he learned poetry of Milton and Shakespeare from his father. But in 1783, his father died. Then he became dependent on relatives. However he continued his study and first wrote a poem in 1787. He went to St. John's College, Cambridge and graduated from that college in 1791. Then he went out with his friend on a walking tour to France and Italy. He spent the next year there. While in France he fell in love with a French women named Annette Vallon. He was greatly influenced by the French Revolution in 1791. He had a close friendship with another romantic poet Samuel Taylor Colleridge. They jointly published a book named 'Lyrical Ballads' in 1798. In this book they explained their new poetic theory. They introduced a new poetic idea of poem. Finally he was the poet laureate of England.

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