• William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, United Kingdom, to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson.
  • William Wordsworth, one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic era, was a master of capturing the beauty and power of nature in his works.
  • 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.
  • William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and Hölderlin—and died at the age of eighty...
  • 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 is considered the greatest poet of his age. Upon his death he held the position of of Poet Laureate of England.
  • “Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great is pass'd away.” ― William Wordsworth
  • William Wordsworth the poet, the prophet of Nature, was born in 1770 in Cocker Mouth, Cumberland in the beautiful lake country of Northern England.
  • The life of William Wordsworth who was a Nineteenth Century Romantic Poet of rural and natural themes and friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
  • If one has to describe William Wordsworth in a sentence, it would be that he was a romantic, refreshing, colorful, idealistic, and inconsistent personality.