- WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850) born at Cockermouth. His boyhood was full of adventure among the hills, and he says of himself that he showed “a stiff...
- “Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great is pass'd away.” ― William Wordsworth
- The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann (Cookson), William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in...
- 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.
- William Wordsworth, the son of an attorney, was born in 1770. After the death of his mother in 1778 and his father in 1783, Wordsworth was sent away to be...
- William Wordsworth the poet, the prophet of Nature, was born in 1770 in Cocker Mouth, Cumberland in the beautiful lake country of Northern England.
- William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England, to John and Ann Wordsworth.
- William Wordsworth, biography and works which are the subject of this review, was the largest representative of romanticism in English literature.
- William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth2, Cumberland, the second of five children.
- William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770 in a large mansion known as Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumbria County, North West England.