98 Quotes & Sayings By William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born on 21 January 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. He was the son of a lawyer who had served in the House of Commons. His childhood was divided between his family home in Penrith and his father's house at Grasmere until he was eight years old when he moved with his parents to Rydal Mount in Westmoreland. He was educated at Hawkshead Grammar School in Grasmere, the Dorset grammar school apprenticed to John James Audubon, and Christ's Hospital in London
He won prizes for English verse composition and Latin prose. When he was seventeen, Wordsworth went to London to study law. While there he attended Westminster School of Art where he met William Gilpin, Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and other poets.
At this time, Wordsworth began writing poems (some of which were published by John Taylor) and it is possible that some of these may have formed the basis of his first major work Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth returned to Grasmere in 1798 where he remained for the rest of his life.