- Fate dealt a terrible blow when the Wordsworth's much loved daughter, Dora, died of tuberculosis in 1847, both William and Mary were crushed by their loss.
- 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.
- An early leader of romanticism in English poetry, William Wordsworth is known to be the first and greatest romantic poet of the 19th century.
- William Wordsworth Biography and Works William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic Age.
- If one has to describe William Wordsworth in a sentence, it would be that he was a romantic, refreshing, colorful, idealistic, and inconsistent personality.
- 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.
- In the 1807 sonnet "The Words is too much with Us," William Wordsworth speaks out about the conflict between nature and mankind.
- William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, United Kingdom, to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson.
- William Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School, and it was around this time that Wordsworth began to write his first poems.
- Also "William Wordsworth," essays on Wordsworth's writing technique, themes, biography, and the historical background. The Victorian Web, ed.