What was William Wordsworth's nationality?

William Wordsworth was English. He was born, educated, and lived almost his entire life in England. As a child, he read such great English writers as Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Later, after he became famous, Oxford awarded him an honorary degree, and he was named Poet Laureate of England.

Wordsworth did spend some time in France as a young man, where he fathered a child and was much taken with the ideals of the French...

William Wordsworth was English. He was born, educated, and lived almost his entire life in England. As a child, he read such great English writers as Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Later, after he became famous, Oxford awarded him an honorary degree, and he was named Poet Laureate of England.

Wordsworth did spend some time in France as a young man, where he fathered a child and was much taken with the ideals of the French Revolution. But while the talk of equality, liberty and brotherhood may have influenced his style of poetry, especially in encouraging him to write in the language of the common person and about the common person, he was an English poet through and through, and later in life, a political conservative.

He moved in early adulthood to the north of England and lived in the Lake Country, a beautiful and isolated area filled with hills and water features, where he moved because, by living frugally with his sister Dorothy, he could survive on a small income and devote himself to poetry. He became so identified  with the area that he is known as one the English Lake poets. His poetry is intimately associated with this particular natural English landscape as well as such distinctly English sites as the ruins of Tinturn Abbey. He is a writer, like Shakespeare or Jane Austen, who would be considered an emblem of his country. Once you learn about him, it becomes difficult to forget he is English.