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They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, Earl of Abergavenny was wrecked off the south coast of England and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland-part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District. Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800).Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798).Marriage 1 Mary Hutchinson b: 1770 Married: in Grasmere, Cumberland, England Though it was not well-received at the time, it has since been recognized as a masterpiece. His autobiographical epic, The Prelude, was published three months after his death in 1850.

(Wordsworth had previously had an affair with Annette Vallon, while he was in France, and by whom he had a daughter.) Wordsworth’s love for nature and sympathy for the common man were major themes in his poetry. In 1802 he married Mary Hutchinson with whom he had attended infants' school. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the joint publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798.