Dorothy was William's secretary as William dictated his poetry. Coleridge having previously moved to Greta Hall in Keswick. In December 1799 William and Dorothy moved into Dove Cottage, in Grasmere. The thought of her was like a flash of light Her voice was like a hidden bird that sang In his poem 'Home at Grasmere', which is a celebration of the happy years spent at Dove Cottage, Wordsworth pays tribute to his sister: Wordsworth often used Dorothy's journal as a starting point for poems, but more than this he recognised her importance to him in their shared response to the world around them. In 1795 he received a bequest of £900 which gave him the means to pursue a literary career.Įncouraged by Coleridge and stimulated by the close contact with nature, Wordsworth composed his first masterwork, Lyrical Ballads, which opened with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner." About 1798 he started to write a large and philosophical autobiographical poem, completed in 1805, and published posthumously in 1850 under the title The Prelude. He then went to St John's College Cambridge, where he was not a notable student, but inevitably matured in thought and sophistication. The affair was basis of the poem "Vaudracour and Julia", but otherwise Wordsworth did his best to hide the affair from posterity. On his second journey in France, Wordsworth had an affair with a French girl, Annette Vallon, a daughter of a barber-surgeon, by whom he had a illegitimate daughter Anne Caroline. There are many ideas associated with ‘Romantic’ poetry, but one of the most important for Wordsworth was to show the link between human experience and the natural world.ĭuring a summer vacation in 1790 Wordsworth went on a walking tour through revolutionary France and also traveled in Switzerland. Wordsworth loved and drew inspiration from this landscape of the Lake District, his home. Here Wordsworth wrote many of his most famous poems. in 1791.ĭove Cottage was home to the Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and his family for 8 ½ years (1799-1808). John's College, Cambridge, from where he took his B.A. Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787, when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. With the help of his two uncles, Wordsworth entered a local school and continued his studies at Cambridge University. The domestic problems separated Wordsworth from his beloved and neurotic sister Dorothy, who was a very important person in his life. He lost his mother when he was eight and five years later his father. The magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworth's imagination and gave him a love of nature. Wordsworth's future wife Mary Hutchinson is said to have attended the same school while Dorothy and Wordsworth were still students there. He attended the infant school in Penrith between 17, along with his sister Dorothy. His father, Attorney, John Wordsworth, born to a lawyer, was the personal attorney of Sir James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale.William's childhood was spent largely in Cockermouth and Penrith, his mother's home town. Born to an attorney, Wordsworth was the second, with an elder brother Richard, a younger sister, Dorothy and two younger brothers, John and Christopher. In the Lake District was born the Great Nature Poet of all times, William Wordsworth on April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth on the River Derwent.
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