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Search for: 'William Wordsworth' in Oxford Reference ». (1770–1850),educated at Hawkshead Grammar School. His mother died in 1778, his father in 1783, losses recorded in The Prelude. He attended St John's College, Cambridge, but disliked the academic course. In 1790 he went on a walking tour of France, the Alps, and Italy, and returned to ...
In 1765, aged just 24, lawyer John Wordsworth moved into what is now called Wordsworth House. It was a very grand ‘tied’ house, which came rent-free with his job as agent for the Cumberland estates of Sir James Lowther, one of England’s richest men. The following year John married Ann Cookson, the 19-year-old daughter of a prosperous ...
One and a half miles off the coast at Weymouth in Dorset, 20 metres below the surface, lies the wreck of the Earl of Abergavenny. Built by Thomas Pitcher at his yard in Northfleet, Kent in 1796 she was one of the largest classes of merchant ships chartered to the United East India Company. Abergavenny’s commander was John Wordsworth, brother of poet William Wordsworth.
On 5 February 1805 John Wordsworth, the poet's brother, drowned when the ship he was commanding was wrecked off the English coast near Weymouth. No one would want to deny Ernest de Selincourt's assertion that his death was “the most terrible blow that either William or Dorothy had ever suffered”; it can easily be taken, as it often is, as ...
6 de ago. de 2023 · William Wordsworth, Born on April 7, 1770, in the scenic Lake District of England, is one of the greatest romantic poets from the early Victorian era. His works have left an indelible mark on the literary world, capturing the essence of nature’s beauty and the human connection with it. He was an eminent English poet who played a central role ...
11 de dic. de 2020 · 201 pages : 24 cm "Deep Distresses is a psycho-biographical and cultural study of William Wordsworth's middle years and poetry that shows the poet's brother, Captain John Wordsworth, and the painter-aristocrat Sir George Beaumont to be the two pillars of the poet's life and poetry, rather than the marginal presences of other biographies.
Track 5 on Poems by John Donne and William Wordsworth One of Wordsworth’s most famous somnets, composed by 5 verses with 6 “bars” each. It follows a rhyme scheme of ABABDD and has tetrameter.
