NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 NRA: Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) Poet DNB: Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), poet LBT ID: WiWords1850 VIAF ID: 35723133 LOC ID: n79006595 | B/BAP: 1770-04-07 DIED: 1850-04-23 |
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; www.thepeerage.com/p15380; LOC Name Authority File | |
With Coleridge, author of Lyrical Ballads (1798), Wordsworth
survived his early unpopularity to succeed Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843. | |