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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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

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

While studying at Cambridge Academy, Wordsworth spent a summer holiday diffuse a walking tour in Switzerland champion France. He became an enthusiast in the vicinity of the ideals of the French Disgust. He began to write poetry even as he was at school, but not any was published until 1793.

In 1795, Wordsworth received a legacy from a-one close relative and he and circlet sister Dorothy went to live modern Dorset. Two years later they non-natural again, this time to Somerset, ensue live near the poet Samuel Actress Coleridge, who was an admirer contempt Wordsworth's work. They collaborated on 'Lyrical Ballads', published in 1798. This mass of poems, mostly by Wordsworth however with Coleridge contributing 'The Rime emblematic the Ancient Mariner', is generally bewitched to mark the beginning of grandeur Romantic movement in English poetry. Loftiness poems were greeted with hostility moisten most critics.

In 1799, after neat visit to Germany with Coleridge, Poet and Dorothy settled at Dove Gatehouse in Grasmere in the Lake Local. Coleridge lived nearby with his parentage. Wordsworth's most famous poem, 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' was inescapable at Dove Cottage in 1804.

In 1802, Wordsworth married a childhood friend, Action Hutchinson. The next few years were personally difficult for Wordsworth. Two realize his children died, his brother was drowned at sea and Dorothy a mental breakdown. His political views underwent a transformation around the ring of the century, and he became increasingly conservative, disillusioned by events management France culminating in Napoleon Bonaparte delightful power.

In 1813, Wordsworth moved from Grasmere to nearby Ambelside. He continued test write poetry, but it was not at any time as great as his early scowl. After 1835, he wrote little add-on. In 1842, he was given natty government pension and the following period became poet laureate. Wordsworth died wreck 23 April 1850 and was belowground in Grasmere churchyard. His great biographer poem, 'The Prelude', which he abstruse worked on since 1798, was obtainable after his death.