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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. He continues to be widely read, and his influence is extremely far reaching. Many of his poems continue to be among the most popular and critically acclaimed in the English language.(来源:Wikipedia)
威廉·华兹华斯(1770~1850)是英国重要的浪漫主义诗人。他和塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治在1798年共同出版《抒情歌谣集》,将英国文学带入了浪漫主义时代。从1843年直到1850年去世,华兹华斯一直是英国的“桂冠诗人”。直到现在,他的作品仍然广为流传,他的影响尤为深远持久。他的许多诗歌至今仍属英语文学中最受欢迎、最得批评家肯定的作品。