- William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England on April 7, 1770. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was eight—this experience shapes...
- William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in...
- William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth to John Wordsworth, a legal agent for James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and Collector of...
- 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...
- If one has to describe William Wordsworth in a sentence, it would be that he was a romantic, refreshing, colorful, idealistic, and inconsistent personality.
- The William Wordsworth Page at American Literature, featuring a biography and Free Library of the author's Novels, Stories, Poems, Letters, and Texts.
- William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798.
- 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, one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic era, was a master of capturing the beauty and power of nature in his works.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) became ‘Romanticism’, in many ways: he came to embody the starting-point of English Romanticism through his early...