William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
By Jade Robinson
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who helped start the Romantic Age by his and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Wordsworth was born on April 7th, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland (England) in the Lake District, which was an area surrounded by mountains, lakes and streams – a setting that was very inspiring to him. His parents were Anne Cookson (who died when Wordsworth was only eight) and John Wordsworth (who died when William was 13 years old). He was the 2nd of 5 children, and the names of his brothers and sisters were Dorothy (to whom he was very close to for all of his life), Richard, John, and Christopher. Wordsworth's father, taught him poetry, (such as works of John Milton, William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser). He also stayed at his mother's parents house in Penrith, Cumberland. At Penrith, Wordsworth was exposed to the moors, and the landscape influenced him and resulted in him turning more towards nature and was influenced by his experience with the landscape and was further turned toward nature. He could not get along with his grandparents and his uncle, and this made him so depressed that he started to think about committing suicide.
After the death of his mother, William’s father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School. He began going to St John’s College, Cambridge, where he got his B.A degree. After that, he visited Revolutionary France and fell in love with Annette Vallon, who in 1762 gave birth to their daughter Caroline. He returned to England by himself the next year, but war broke out between France and England which prevented him for seeing Annette and Caroline. He started to become more unhappy, depressed, and very near to a mental collapse caused by him being away from his wife and child. Once he had moved back to England, he married Mary Hutchinson, one of his childhood friends. Mary and William had five children: John, Dora, William, Catherine, and...
By Jade Robinson
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who helped start the Romantic Age by his and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Wordsworth was born on April 7th, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland (England) in the Lake District, which was an area surrounded by mountains, lakes and streams – a setting that was very inspiring to him. His parents were Anne Cookson (who died when Wordsworth was only eight) and John Wordsworth (who died when William was 13 years old). He was the 2nd of 5 children, and the names of his brothers and sisters were Dorothy (to whom he was very close to for all of his life), Richard, John, and Christopher. Wordsworth's father, taught him poetry, (such as works of John Milton, William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser). He also stayed at his mother's parents house in Penrith, Cumberland. At Penrith, Wordsworth was exposed to the moors, and the landscape influenced him and resulted in him turning more towards nature and was influenced by his experience with the landscape and was further turned toward nature. He could not get along with his grandparents and his uncle, and this made him so depressed that he started to think about committing suicide.
After the death of his mother, William’s father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School. He began going to St John’s College, Cambridge, where he got his B.A degree. After that, he visited Revolutionary France and fell in love with Annette Vallon, who in 1762 gave birth to their daughter Caroline. He returned to England by himself the next year, but war broke out between France and England which prevented him for seeing Annette and Caroline. He started to become more unhappy, depressed, and very near to a mental collapse caused by him being away from his wife and child. Once he had moved back to England, he married Mary Hutchinson, one of his childhood friends. Mary and William had five children: John, Dora, William, Catherine, and...