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. His literary works are: The Prelude, The Solitary Reaper, The Excursion, Lucy, The Daffodils, Tintern Abbey etc. Source: britannica.com