![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1790 he spent the summer vacation on a walking tour in France and Switzerland, and during this tour he witnessed the first stages of the French Revolution. From 1787 to 1791 he studied at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a BA. His first publication came when he was seventeen, a poem in The European Magazine. Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School. The children then came under the care of uncles. His mother died when he was eight, and his father when he was thirteen. Wordsworth was born in 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, the third son of an attorney, John Wordsworth. In 1798, he and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads, a work that was regarded at the time as radically innovative, with its use of a poetic register (principally seen in many of the poems Wordsworth contributed to this volume) that was closer to everyday speech, and which avoided the poetic diction that was generally the style of poetry in the 18th century. His long autobiographical poem The Prelude is widely regarded as a masterpiece, but much of his later work is generally considered less significant, especially those works composed during his tenure as poet laureate, from 1843 until his death. He was very prolific, producing many poems that are held to be important, as well as having a significant influence on British and American poetry of the 19th and early 20th centuries. William Wordsworth (Ap– April 23, 1850) was one of the leading English Romantic poets. ![]()
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