Wordsworth's Poetical Works

Death

Gravestone of William Wordsworth, Grasmere, Cumbria

William Wordsworth died at home at Rydal Mount from an aggravated case of pleurisy on 23 April 1850,[41][42] and was buried at St Oswald's Church, Grasmere. His widow, Mary, published his lengthy autobiographical "Poem to Coleridge" as The Prelude several months after his death.[43] Though it failed to interest people at the time, it has since come to be widely recognised as his masterpiece.


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