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.
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The English poet William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth. His father, John Wardsworth, was a lawyer interested in study and collection. He encouraged his children to complete their studies. His mother Anne died in his youth in 1778, To the grammar school away from his home. i have studied English literature at Minia University
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