Description
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 05/01/1996
Pages: 736
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.12w x 1.26d
ISBN13: 9780140433692
ISBN10: 0140433694
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Animals & Nature
About the Author
William Wordsworth was born in the Lake District in 1770 and died there eighty years later in 1850. He had three brothers and a sister, Dorothy, to whom he was extremely close. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, Wordsworth travelled widely and wrote poetry. He spent his twenties as a wanderer in France, Wales, London, the Lakes, Dorset and Germany. In France he fathered a child who he did not meet until she was nine, due to the war. In 1795 he was reunited with Dorothy and met Coleridge, who was to be a particular influence on his poetry. He became Poet Laureate in 1843. Jonathan Wordsworth is descended from William's younger brother Christopher, is Chairman of the Wordsworth Trust and a Lecturer in Romantic Studies at Oxford.