Title: William Wordsworth
Headings: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
Primary Sources
(1) In 1792 Dr. Richard Watson, the Bishop of Llandaff, published a pamphlet attacking the French Revolution. In Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793), William Wordsworth attempted to reply to Dr. Richard Watson.
(2) William Wordsworth, The Wealth of Nations (1805)

Content: Three years later William Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson. Over the next five years Wordsworth suffering several distressing experiences, including the death of two of his children, his brother being drowned at sea and Dorothy's mental breakdown. During this period Wordsworth worked on two major poems, The Recluse, which was never finished, and The Prelude, a poem that remained unpublished until after his death. Wordsworth published Poems in Two Volumes in 1807. This including the poems: Ode to Duty (about the death of his brother), Resolution and Independence and Intimations of Immortality. Although attacked by William Hazlitt, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, for renouncing his early radicalism, Wordsworth was popular with most critics. The Excursion (1814) was well received and this was followed by The White Doe of Rylstone (1815), Miscellaneous Poems (1815) and The Waggoner (1819). Wordsworth, now established as a conservative and patriotic poet, succeeded Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843. William Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount, Ambleside in 1850.