Who was the author that was credited with launching the English romantic movement? A. William Wordsworth B. Edgar Allen Poe C. William Blake D. Mark Twain

The answer is William Wordsworth. He launched the Romantic Age in English literature together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge last 1798. He was also considered as The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times.