William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, on the edge of the Lake District in northwestern England, the second of five children. His sister Dorothy, born the next year, became a poet and diarist and stayed close to him all his life. After their mother died in 1778, William was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School, and the brother and sister did not meet again for nine years. In 1787 he published his first sonnet and entered St John's College, Cambridge. In 1790 he went on a walking tour of the Alps, and in 1791 he visited revolutionary France. With his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge he published Lyrical Ballads in 1798, which included 'Tintern Abbey' and 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and helped to launch the Romantic movement in English poetry. William and Dorothy settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, and he married Mary Hutchinson, whom he had known since childhood. In 1813 the family moved to Rydal Mount, near Ambleside. He became Poet Laureate in 1843 and died in 1850. His long autobiographical poem The Prelude was published after his death.

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Faith: Never rebelled against his religious upbringing; he became a supporter of the Church of England. Source: Wikipedia

See also: Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Robert Burns · William Cowper