| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Wordsworth, William |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Words·worth |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  wûrdz wûrth |
| DATES: | 1770–1850 |
| British poet whose most important collection, Lyrical Ballads (1798), published jointly with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped establish romanticism in England. He was appointed poet laureate in 1843. | | OTHER FORMS: | Words·worthi·an —ADJECTIVE
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