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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William Wordsworth, c. 1840 ©Wordsworth was one of the most influential of England's Romantic poets.

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth in Cumbria. His father was a lawyer. Both Wordsworth's parents died before he was 15, and he and his four siblings were left in the care of different relatives. As a young man, Wordsworth developed a love of nature, a theme reflected in many of his poems.

While studying at Cambridge University, Wordsworth spent a summer holiday on a walking tour in Switzerland and France. He became an enthusiast for the ideals of the French Revolution. He began to write poetry while he was at school, but none was published until 1793.

In 1795, Wordsworth received a legacy from a close relative and he and his sister Dorothy went to live in Dorset. Two years later they moved again, this time to Somerset, to live near the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was an admirer of Wordsworth's work. They collaborated on 'Lyrical Ballads', published in 1798. This collection of poems, mostly by Wordsworth but

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William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet (1770–1850)

"Wordsworth" redirects here. For other uses, see Wordsworth (disambiguation).

For the English composer, see William Wordsworth (composer). For the British academic and journalist in India, see William Christopher Wordsworth.

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "The Poem to Coleridge".

Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. He remains one of the most recognizable names in English poetry and was a key figure of the Romantic poets.

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Biography of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was one of the nineteenth century Romantic “Lake Poets” and a Poet Laureate.

When and Where was he Born?

7th April 1770. Cockermouth, Cumbria, England.

Family Background:

Wordsworth was the second son of John Wordsworth, the Business Agent of Sir James Lowther (later Earl of Lonsdale) and Ann, daughter of William Cookson, a linen draper.

Education:

Hawkshead Grammar School, Cumbria. St. John’s College, Cambridge.

Timeline of William Wordsworth

1771:Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister, born at Cockermouth.

1778:Death of his Mother on March 8th.

1779: He lodges with Hugh and Ann Tyson whilst attending Hawkshead Grammar School.

1783:Death of his father on 30th December.

1785: Wordsworth’s first surviving poetry is written. “Lines Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead”.

1787:His first published poem is included in “The European Magazine” in March, “Sonnet, On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress”.