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William Wordsworth | 10 Facts On The Famous English Poet
#1 His brother John was captain of the ship Earl of Abergavenny which sank in 1805
#2 Wordsworth graduated from Cambridge University in 1791
#3 He had a very close relationship with his sister Dorothy Wordsworth
#4 He had a daughter with a French woman named Annette Vallon
#5 Wordsworth married his childhood friend Mary Hutchinson in 1802
#6 A friend’s legacy allowed him to pursue his poetic career
#7 Wordsworth and Coleridge launched the English Romantic movement in literature
#8 1797–1808 is considered Wordsworth’s Great Decade
#9 Wordsworth is the only Poet Laureate of Britain to write no official verses
#10 His masterpiece The Prelude was published three months after his death
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William Wordsworth | 10 Facts On The Famous English Poet
September 13, 2018
August 6, 2016 by Anirudh
Active in late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century, William Wordsworth was an English poet who, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the English Romantic movement in literature and changed the course of English poetry. After struggling in the initial phase of his career, Wordsworth had become one of the most renowned poets in his later years and was appointed Poet Laureate of Britain in 1843. Know about the family, life, career, works and death of William Wordsworth through these 10 interesting facts. #1 His brother John was captain of the ship Earl of Abergavenny which sank in 1805
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770 in a large mansion known as Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumbria County, North West England. He was the second of five children of John Wordsworth and his wife Ann Cookson. John Wordsworth was a legal representative of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale. William’s siblings were Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; Dorothy, an author, poet and diarist; John, captain of the ship Earl of Abergavenny which was wrecked in February 1805 causing his death which devastated William; and Christopher, the youngest, who became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.