Publication details of I wandered lonely as a cloud:

Published in The Complete Poetical Works (1888).

Other literary works include:

Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
The Prelude (1850)

Born:

7th of April, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumbria, UK

Early years:

The second of five children of a modestly prosperous estate manager. After his mother died (1778), he was sent to live with his uncle.

Schooling:

He attended the prestigious Hawkshead Grammar School. His first attempts at verse might have been made there. After Hawkshead he studied at St. John's College in Cambridge.

Career:

Before his final semester in Cambridge, he set out on a walking tour of Europe, and this experience influenced both his poetry and his political sensibilities. While touring Europe, he came into contacts with the intimations of the French revolution. He lived in France for a while where his interest and sympathy for the trouble and speech of the "common man" was raised. In Dorsetshire, Wordsworth became the intimate friend of Coleridge and probably under his influence, a student of David Hartley's empiricist philosophy. Together the two poets wrote Lyrical Ballads (1798). The work introduced romanticism into England and became the manifesto for romantic poets.

Final years:

He settled at Rydal Mount in England, travelling and continuing his outdoor excursions. In 1842 Wordsworth was given a civil list pension, and the following year he was named poet laureate. After his daughter's death in 1847 he seemingly lost his will to compose poems. The Prelude was published by his wife 3 months after his death.

Died:

He died at Rydal Mount on the 23rd of April, 1850.