Short answers, pulled from the story.
Wordsworth is best known for co-authoring Lyrical Ballads (1798) with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a foundational text of the English Romantic movement. His magnum opus is considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem published posthumously in 1850 by his wife Mary.
Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility". He set out this definition in the preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800.
Yes. In 1792, Annette Vallon, a French woman Wordsworth met during his visit to Revolutionary France in 1791, gave birth to their daughter Caroline. Wordsworth did not see Caroline until 1802, when she was nine years old, during a visit to Calais he made with his sister Dorothy.
Wordsworth became Poet Laureate in 1843, following the death of Robert Southey. He initially refused the position, citing his age, but accepted after Prime Minister Robert Peel assured him that no official verses would be required of him.
Wordsworth refused to publish The Prelude because he considered it too personal to release before he had completed his larger planned work, The Recluse. The Recluse was never finished. His widow Mary published The Prelude several months after his death in 1850.
Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, and spent much of his adult life in the Lake District. From 1813 until his death, he lived at Rydal Mount in Ambleside. He died there on the 23rd of April 1850 from pleurisy and was buried at St Oswald's Church in Grasmere.