Title: William Wordsworth Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline
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William Wordsworth Biography
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Content: The poems in themselves are some of the most influential in Western literature, but the poet’s views as expressed in the preface to the second edition hold the honour of being the most important work of the English Romantic Movement. Continue Reading Below
‘The Prelude’, had not even been given a title at the time of Wordsworth’s death; it was the product of a lifetime he had been working on from the time he was 28. It was ultimately named and published by his widow Mary three months after his death. Personal Life & Legacy
As a student, he toured France and fell in love with a French Woman, Annette Vallon with whom he had a daughter, Caroline. 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.