Title: William Wordsworth Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline
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William Wordsworth Biography
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Content: Even though he did not marry Annette, he did his best to support his daughter. In 1802, he married his childhood friend Mary Hutchinson. The couple had five children, three of whom predeceased their father. His sister Dorothy lived with him throughout his life. After the death of his daughter Dora in 1847, the devastated father stopped writing poetry completely. William Wordsworth died after a short illness on 23 April 1850. Wordsworth’s major legacy was the introduction of a new attitude towards nature as he introduced nature imagery into his work, and presented a fresh view of the relationship between man and the natural world. As a poet, Wordsworth delved deeply into his own sensibilities as he traced the growth of a poet’s mind in his autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’. Wordsworth not only created some of the finest poetry of his times, but he also placed poetry at the center of human existence, pronouncing it to be “as immortal as the heart of man.” Trivia
‘The Prelude’, was intended by the poet to be an introduction to a long philosophical poem, ‘The Recluse’, which he never finished in his life time.