| Term Paper Title | William Wordsworth |
| # of Words | 600 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 2.4 |
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a British poet, who spent his life in the Lake District of North England. He was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, as steward to an estate. The first few years of William’s life were the toughest. His mother died when he was eight and the next year he was sent to attend the principal grammar school of the district at Hawkshead where he was well educated. Only four years later, however, his father died, and he found himself an orphan at the age of thirteen. He had a very rough childhood having to rely on his own beliefs instead of his parents guiding him along. He developed an early fondness of the beauty and sublimity of the Lake District that touched his life and his beliefs (Hayden 79).
In 1887 he registered at Saint John’s in Cambridge where he was an indifferent student. In the same year, however, he published his first poem, a sonnet that appeared in the respectable European Review. Still, at this early point no one could have predicted the development that a decade later would make Wordsworth the spokesperson for a revolution in English poetry (Heaney 31-32). In the summer of 1790, allowing his republican sympathies, he and a classmate took a walking tour through revolutionary France. He returned to France after his graduation in the following year and in Orleans had a romantic affair with Annette Vallon, by whom he had a daughter, Caroline, in December of 1792. But the political tensions that erupted into war between England and France in February of 1793 forced him to return to England before she was born, and he did not see her until that start of the new century, during the Peace of Amiens, when she was nine. Returning to France at that point, he established financial arrangements for his daughter’s education.
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