- 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 was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, United Kingdom, to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson.
- William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798.
- 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 officially known cause of William Wordsworth’s death was as pleurisy, which an inflammation of the lining around the lungs.
- The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now...
- 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.
- 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...
- “William Wordsworth is considered the greatest poet of his age. Upon his death he held the position of of Poet Laureate of England.
- The William Wordsworth Page at American Literature, featuring a biography and Free Library of the author's Novels, Stories, Poems, Letters, and Texts.