William Wordsworth

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Three-quarter-length painting of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842, known as "Wordsworth on Helvellyn" (though it was painted in London, with the mountain scene done from memory). Haydon was responding to a poem Wordsworth wrote for him; Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), alerted by Mary Russell Mitford, wrote a poem about the painting. Wordsworth stands tall, arms folded and gazing downwards, showing his beaky face and bald head framed in remaining white hair and sideburns. National Portr

Milestones

7 April 1770

WW , Romantic poet and eventually Poet Laureate, was born at Cockermouth in Cumberland, into a family that totalled four brothers and a sister.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.

23 April 1850

WW , Poet Laureate, died at his house, Rydal Mount, at Grasmere in Westmorland.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Biography

Birth

7 April 1770

WW , Romantic poet and eventually Poet Laureate, was born at Cockermouth in Cumberland, into a family that totalled four brothers and a sister.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.

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