- His father, John Wordsworth, introduced the young William to the great poetry of Milton and Shakespeare, but he was frequently absent during William’s childhood.
- In 1802 William Wordsworth was again married to his childhood friend Mary Hutchinson ,in the following year Mary give birth to the first of five children.
- “Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great is pass'd away.” ― William Wordsworth
- No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. – William Wordsworth.
- When we look at the life of William Wordsworth, we can see a very good example of this. He was born in Cockermouth, in the county of Cumbria, England, in 1770.
- The officially known cause of William Wordsworth’s death was as pleurisy, which an inflammation of the lining around the lungs.
- William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth in Cumberland, the second of five children of John Wordsworth, who worked as an agent and rent collector for Sir...
- The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now...
- William Wordsworth’s literary classic, ‘Daffodils,’ also known as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,’ is one of the most popular poems in the English language.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850), an English poet, was born at Cockermouth, on the Derwent, in Cumberland, on the 7th of April 1770.