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William Wordsworth, the father of Romanticism
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Romanticism was birthed in England in 1798, in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. With their joint publication in 1798 titled Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge started the Romantic period in English Literature. Wordsworth is considered the father of Romantic poetry. His poetry was inspired by the beautiful and lonesome English countryside where he lived quietly at a lake district. He was first taught how to read and write by his mother, Mary, before going off to a low quality school near him. Later, he was transferred to a school of repute and later after his mother’s death in 1778, attended Hawkshead Grammar School, and then Cambridge. His first attempt at literary work was in 1787 when he published his first poem, a sonnet, in The European Magazine. Wordsworth had access to his father’s library when he was growing up, and he had a younger sister who later became famous called Dorothy Wordsworth, a poet and diarist. Being exposed to nature, first at the moors as he spent time with his maternal grandparents, was one of the early influences of nature on the poet’s life.