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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
Wordsworth and Walking Stewart

Content: Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem, containing extremely personal details of his life and on which he worked since 1798, The Prelude, was published three months after his death. The Prelude is widely regarded by critics as Wordsworth’s greatest work though his most popular poem is perhaps ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, commonly known as Daffodils. William Wordsworth was the central figure in the English Romantic revolution in poetry and is considered one of the greatest poets in English literature. Gravestone of William Wordsworth in Grasmere, Cumbria
Wordsworth and Walking Stewart
In 1792, while he was in revolutionary Paris, Wordsworth became acquainted with the famous English traveller and philosopher John Stewart, popularly known as ‘Walking’ Stewart. He is said to have travelled on foot alone from India through Persia, Abyssinia, Arabia and Africa, and every European country as far east as Russia. William Wordsworth later described Stewart as the most eloquent man on the subject of Nature he had ever met. Some scholars consider that many of Wordsworth’s philosophical sentiments may be indebted to Walking Stewart.