| | Page Back | Poems Index | Biography, poems and picture William Wordsworth | | This page is dedicated to this great poet together with a biography, picture and most famous poems | Concise Biography and Picture | William Wordsworth Nationality - English Lifespan - 1770 - 1850 Father - John Wordsworth, lawyer Educated - Hawkeshead Grammar School and St Johns College Cambridge Career - Poet and author First Published - 1798 | Famous Poems William Wordsworth | Daffodils a poem by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud a poem by William Wordsworth
London 1802 a poem by William Wordsworth
The Tables Turned a poem by William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey a poem by William Wordsworth Famous Quote by William Wordsworth "That best portion of a good mans life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." William Wordsworth | Biography William Wordsworth | It was William Wordsworth who made a deep poetic appreciation of nature, closely akin to a religion, an imperishable part of English Literature. Love of nature was not an incidental or decorative part of his verse; it was its chief impulse and theme. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey were called in their own day The Lake Poets, because they were friends who lived near each other in the English Lake District. But it was only in their youth that they had a deep influence on each other. Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland just outside the Lake District, on April 7th 1770. His father was the agent of the first Earl of Lonsdale, a wealthy but eccentric nobleman with great local influence. William was only thirteen when his father died, leaving five children (four boys and one girl). |
The Wordsworth family would have been fairly well off if the Earl had paid the money he owed to their father but he refused to do so and they were consequently brought up by their grandparents in a plain and simple way. Money was found, however, to educate the children. Richard, the eldest boy, became a lawyer like his father. William and the youngest boy went to Cambridge and the remaining son went to sea. At college William made little distinction in learning however his brother Christopher became Master of Trinity. After he had taken his degree he published his first book of poems descriptive of his European travels as a student and the Lake District. The sale of the book was small but reached Coleridge and Southey which is how they became great friends. | |
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This page is dedicated to this great poet together with a biography, picture and most famous poems
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