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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.

Early life

Family and education

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1770 born April 7 to John and Anne (Cookson) Wordsworth, second of five.

1778 mother dies; William goes to Hawkshead Grammar School.

1783 father dies.

1787 goes up to St. John's College, Cambridge.

1789 An Evening Walk .

1790 walking tour of France, Switzerland, and Germany.

1791 graduates; goes to France; meets and has an affair with Annette Vallon.

1792 (illegitimate) daughter Caroline born.

1793 returns to England to earn money; Anglo-French War prevents his return to France until 1802. Descriptive Sketches.

1794 reunited with Dorothy.

1795 inh

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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”.