William Wordsworth was an English poet who helped to form the Romantic Age. Wordsworth's best work is considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem about his early years. Wordsworth's first published poetry was the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches (1793). In 1843 Wordsworth became Poet Laureate. Poems in this second volume include Rob Roy's Grave, The solitary Reaper, Stepping Westward, Glen-Almain, or the Narrow Glen, The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband, To a Highland Girl, Sonnet, Address to the Sons of Burns after visiting their Father's Grave, Aug. 14th, 1803, Yarrow unvisited, To a Butterfly, Written in March while resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother's Water, The small Celandine, The Sparrow's Nest, Gipsies, To the Cuckoo, and To a Butterfly.