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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: In 1843, following the death of his friend Robert Southey, William Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He initially refused the offer saying he was too old but British P.M. Robert Peel assured him that “you shall have nothing required of you”. Wordsworth was poet laureate till his death in 1850 and is the only one to write no official verses. Rydal Mount in Ambleside, Cumbria – Wordsworth’s home from 1813 to 1850
#10 His masterpiece The Prelude was published three months after his death
William Wordsworth died on 23rd April 1850 at his home Rydal Mount from an aggravated case of pleurisy. He was 80 years old. 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.