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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