Full Name: William Wordsworth.

Father: John Wordsworth (d. 1783).
Mother: Ann Cookson Wordsworth (d. 1778).
Sister: Dorothy Wordsworth.
Girlfriend: Annette Vallon (one daughter).
Daughter: Anne Caroline Wordsworth (b. 15-Dec-1792).
Wife: Mary Hutchinson (m. 1802, d. 1859).

Date of Birth: 7 April 1770.
Birth Place: Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, Kingdom of Great Britain.

Date of Death: 23 April 1850 (aged 80).
Death Place: Cumberland, United Kingdom.
Cause of Death: Respiratory Failure.
Remains/Buried: St. Oswald's Churchyard, Grasmere, Cumbria, England.
Gender: Male.
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian.
Race or Ethnicity: White.
Occupation: Poet, Writer.
Nationality: England.

Education: St John's College, Cambridge, Hawkshead Grammar School, University of Cambridge.

Literary Movement: Romanticism.

Notable Work(s): Lyrical Ballads, Poems in Two Volumes, The Excursion, The Prelude.

British poet, credited to introduce the English Romantic Movement William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who guided English literature in the Romantic Age with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He is considered one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature. Wordsworth was an early supporter of the French Revolution influenced by the ideas of William Godwin.

Childhood & Early Life: William Wordsworth was born at Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, Kingdom of Great Britain. He was the second of five children of his parents (John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson). Wordsworth's father taught him poetry, including that of Milton, Shakespeare and Spenser. Unfortunately, he lost his parents early. After the death of his mother in 1778 and his father in 1783, Wordsworth was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School to be educated. Wordsworth known him as a writer in 1787, when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year, he went to St. John's College, Cambridge where he developed radical political views and gained his B.A. degree in 1791. Wordsworth went on a tour of France, and Switzerland in 1790. After 3 years he returned to England.

Personal Life: William Wordsworth fell in love twice the time. 1st On his second journey in France, he fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who gave birth to their child, Anne Caroline in 1792. At the age of 32, he married a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson. The following year, Mary gave birth to the first of five children. Their five children are John (Son b. 18-Jun-1803), Dorothy (Daughter, b. Aug-1804, d. 1847, tuberculosis), Thomas ( Son, b. Jun-1806), Catherine (Daughter, b. 1808), William (Son, b. 1810).

Later Life & Death: Wordsworth's first poems, Descriptive Sketches and An Evening Walk were published in 1793. Then he published Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793) and The Borderers (1796). His brother John drowned at sea in 1805. Wordsworth's second verse collection, Poems, In Two Volumes, appeared in 1807. Wordsworth was popular with most critics although leaving his early radicalism, he was attacked by William Hazlitt, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His The Excursion (1814), White Doe of Rylstone (1815), Miscellaneous Poems (1815) and The Waggoner (1819) was well-received by reader and critics. He died on 23 April 1850 at the age of 80 in Cumberland, United Kingdom. He was buried at St. Oswald's Churchyard, Grasmere, Cumbria, England.