The Great Poets series launched in 2007 has proven very popular, offering many of the best-loved poems by popular poets in an inexpensive 1 CD collection. Here is a selection of the well-known poems by William Wordsworth (1770-1850). One of the major figures of the English Romantic movement, Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death. In this popular collection are many of his best-known poems, including I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Tintern Abbey.