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Biography of William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was one of the nineteenth century Romantic “Lake Poets” and a Poet Laureate.
When and Where was he Born?
7th April 1770.
Cockermouth, Cumbria, England.
Family Background:
Wordsworth was the second son of John Wordsworth, the Business Agent of Sir James Lowther (later Earl of Lonsdale) and Ann, daughter of William Cookson, a linen draper.
Education:
Hawkshead Grammar School, Cumbria.
St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Timeline of William Wordsworth
1771:Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister, born at Cockermouth.
1778:Death of his Mother on March 8th.
1779: He lodges with Hugh and Ann Tyson whilst attending Hawkshead Grammar School.
1783:Death of his father on 30th December.
1785: Wordsworth’s first surviving poetry is written.
“Lines Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead”.
1787:His first published poem is included in “The European Magazine” in