
Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School, where his love of poetry was firmly established and, it is believed, where he made his first attempts at verse. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was eightthis experience shapes much of his later work. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves. William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England on April 7, 1770.


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For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions. William Wordsworth in Context - February 2015. You are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal William was born in Cockermouth in Cumbria on 7th April 1770 to John Wordsworth, a legal agent and his wife Anne, and was the second of five children. Offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. One of England’s most beloved poets and a pioneer of Romanticism, William Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in 1843.

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