William Wordsworth Research Paper

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Biography

The famous poet William Wordsworth was born on April 7th, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. His mother died when he was 7 years old and he became an orphan at the age of 13. Wordsworth went to Cambridge University after completing grammar school. He graduated in 1790 and later fell in love with Annette Vallon. They were separated by the war between England and France. Through all of his trials and hardships Wordsworth resorted to radicals like William Godwin. Wordsworth later met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and began working on Lyrical Ballads, depicting powerful emotions. It soon came to be a declaration of Romantic principles. Wordsworth began creating the Prelude, an epic autobiographical that he revised throughout his life.

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