Life of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born on 7th of April, 1770 cockermouth. His father John Wordsworth was an attorney lonsdale  and was an influential man of his time. His mother Anne Cookson was the only daughter of William cookson a well to do mercer a dealer in milk products at penrith and of Dorothy Crackanthrope, whose ancestors had been lords of the manor of Newbiggin near penrith. He was second of the five children of his parents, the others being Richard, Dorothy, John and Christopher. He was educated at Hawkshead grammar school and Saint John college, Cambridge from where he did his  B.A in 1791. He went to France in 1791 and stayed their for a period of one year. During this time he was greatly influenced by the French Revolution which was at its peak at that time in France. He published his first volume of poems  in 1793. In 1795 he got a chance to meet S.T Coleridge and soon they become lifetime friends. Wordsworth along with his sister, dorothy and S.T Coleridge with his wife were neighbours to each other at Alfoxden and stowey in Somerset for one year. In 1798, both the poets together published lyrical ballads which is considered to be an epoch making collection of lyrical romantic poems whose preface along with the poems appearing in it attracted a lot of public attention. Together at the end of the same year they went to Germany where Wordsworth started writing The prelude and completed Ruth, Lucy grey, The lines on Lucy and some other poems. In 1802 he married Meri Hutchinson of penrith. After seven years I.e. in 1805 he completed The Prelude which was published after his death on 23rd April 1850. In 1807 he moved to Rydal Mount, Grasmere and lived there till his death. In 1843 he became the poet laureate after the death of Robert southey.