| William Wordsworth |
 William Wordsworth, born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth (Cumberland), who died on 23 April 1850 at Ambleside (Cumbria) is an English poet. It starts with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Romantic period of English literature at the publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798). Its centerpiece is The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his youth. Biography Second in a family of five children, Wordsworth is the son of John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson. He was born in Cockermouth in the old county of Cumberland County today Cumbria. Her sister is a poet Dorothy Wordsworth. His older brother, Richard, was a man of law and the fourth, John, also wants to become a poet when he died in a shipwreck in 1805, Christopher, the Puisne becoming a scientist. Their father is the legal representative of James Lowther, first Earl of Lonsdale. At his mother's death in 1778, his father sends him to Hawkshead Grammar School. In 1783, when his father dies, it leaves a small legacy to his descendants. He joined the St John's College, Cambridge in 1787. In 1790, he traveled to France and supports the Republicans of the French Revolution. He graduated the following year, without mention, and then left for a tour of Europe including the Alps and Italy. He falls in love with a French, Annette Vallon, with whom he has a child, Caroline, born on 15 December 1792 in Orleans. The same year, the lack of money caused him to return, alone, in Great Britain. Accused of being the Gironde, the reign of terror makes it necessary to distance the French republican movement, more war between France and Britain to revise prevent his wife and daughter. In 1793 he published his first poems in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. He received a donation of £ 900 Raisley Calvert in 1795, allowing it to continue to write and move with his sister Racedown. He met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset this year. The two poets quickly become close friends. In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Somerset a few kilometers from the home of Coleridge, at Nether Stowey. Together, they produced Lyrical Ballads (1798), an important work for the British Romantic movement. One of the most famous poems of Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey is published in this collection as well as' The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Dorothy went to Germany. During the winter of 1798-1799, Wordsworth lived in Goslar and began to write an autobiographical piece, The Prelude. His sister and her return to Britain to Grasmere in the Lake District of England, not far from the residence of Robert Southey. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey began to be known as the "poets of the Lake. In 1802, he traveled to France with Dorothy to review Annette and Caroline. Then he married his childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson. Dorothy does not like this marriage but continued to live with the couple. The following year, Mary gave birth to the first of their five children, John. Social relationships and health of Wordsworth mark the beginning of its decline in 1804. When Napoleon became Emperor of France, the last dreams of liberalism Wordsworth collapse, then it is portrayed as a conservative. He works tremendously this year, enabling it to complete The Prelude in 1805, but he continually improve the collection and will be published after his death. The death of his brother John that year will affect profoundly. In 1807, his Poems in Two Volumes were published, including Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. For a time, Wordsworth and Coleridge were distant from each other because of the latter addiction to opium. Two of his children, John and Catherine, died in 1812. The following year he moved to Rydal Mount, Ambleside, close to the property of Harriet Martineau, essayist and activist committed only among his sheep and his goats, where he will spend the rest of his life. It publishes The Excursion in 1814 which is the second part of a trilogy. Critics modern recognize a decline in its work, particularly those he began writing in the mid-1810. Dorothy fell seriously ill in 1829, which left invalid. In 1835, Wordsworth pay a pension to Annette and Caroline. The government gives a civil pension amounting to £ 3 000 per year in 1842. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate. When his daughter, Dora, died in 1847, he temporarily stopped writing. Wordsworth died in 1850 at Rydal Mount and is buried in St Oswald's Church, Grasmere. Mary published his long autobiographical poem, The Prelude, several months after his death. The lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and in particular their collaboration on Lyrical Ballads are at the heart of the film Pandaemonium (2000). He was the founder of the Literary Society.
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