• At the age of 80, he died on April 23, 1850, at his home in Rydal Mount, Westmorland, England. QUICK FACTS. Name: William Wordsworth.
  • William Wordsworth was taught poetry by his father John Wordsworth, who also let his son read extensively from his own father’s library.
  • At the age of 80, he died on April 23, 1850, at his home in Rydal Mount, Westmorland, England. QUICK FACTS. Name: William Wordsworth.
  • The poet and artist William Blake, who knew Wordsworth's work, was struck by Wordsworth's boldness in centering his poetry on the human mind.
  • William Wordsworth (1770-1850), an early leader of romanticism in English poetry, ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature.
  • William Wordsworth (1770–1850) produced some of the greatest English poems of the late 1700s and early 1800s.
  • Poetry Spotlight: William Wordsworth. Experiences shape our perspectives; poets embrace them, while they write their emotions set on fire with the pen of life.
  • William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, on April 7, 1770. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was eight—this experience shapes...
  • On April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland (Located in the scenic northwest England Lake District) William Wordsworth was born as the second of five children.
  • Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), English poet, one of the most accomplished and influential of England’s romantic poet’s whose theories and style created a...