William+Wordsworth

=//William Wordsworth//=

William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, England in the Northwestern shire of Cumbria. He grew up with his four other siblings, Richard, Dorothy, John, and Christopher in a large mansion with their mother Ann Cookson, and their distant father John Wordsworth. Unfortunately, William and his father didn't get along very well, although John did teach his son about poetry, because of his absentness throughout William's childhood, and because of the stress put on his mother being a single mother with 5 children, he spent lots of time living with his grandparents and uncle. Once again, this is unfortunate because his relatives were hostile and drove him to the point of contemplating suicide. Fortunately he did not.

After his mother's death in 1778, he went to Hawkshead Grammar School where he was taught the Bible. After leaving the school, he published his first sonnet in a European literary magazine and continued as ( 1770-04-07 ) proffesional poet from there.

In 1802, he married Mary Hutchinson, and they had 5 happy children- John, Dora, Thomas, Cathrine, and William.

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"William Wordsworth." __Wikipedia__. December 2008. .

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"William Wordsworth." __Carleton College.__ December 2008.  . Back to the poem...