Family background of william wordsworth biography

William Wordsworth was one of the nineteenth century Romantic “Lake Poets” and a Poet Laureate.

When and Where was he Born?

7th April 1770.

Cockermouth, Cumbria, England.

Family Background:

Wordsworth was the second son of John Wordsworth, the Business Agent of Sir James Lowther (later Earl of Lonsdale) and Ann, daughter of William Cookson, a linen draper.

Education:

Hawkshead Grammar School, Cumbria.

St. John’s College, Cambridge.

Timeline of William Wordsworth

1771:Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister, born at Cockermouth.

1778:Death of his Mother on March 8th.

1779: He lodges with Hugh and Ann Tyson whilst attending Hawkshead Grammar School.

1783:Death of his father on 30th December.

1785: Wordsworth’s first surviving poetry is written.

“Lines Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead”.

1787:His first published poem is included in “The European Magazine” in