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• Wordsworth, William — born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, Eng. died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland English poet. Orphaned at age 13, Wordsworth attended Cambridge University, but he remained rootless and virtually penniless until 1795, when a legacy …   Universalium

• Wordsworth, William — (1770 1850) and Dorothy (1771 1855)    Born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, William was the second son and Dorothy the only daughter of the five children of the lawyer and agent to Sir James Lowther (afterwards first Earl of Lonsdale). William was… …   British and Irish poets

• Wordsworth, William — ► (1770 1850) Poeta romántico británico. La composición El preludio (1805) es una de las más conocidas del autor. Su experiencia política queda reflejada en el drama Los fronterizos (1795). * * * (7 abr. 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland,… …   Enciclopedia Universal

• Wordsworth, William — (1770 1850)    Poet, s. of John W., attorney and agent to the 1st Lord Lonsdale, was b. at Cockermouth. His boyhood was full of adventure among the hills, and he says of himself that he showed a stiff, moody, and violent temper. He lost his… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

• WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM —    poet, born at Cockermouth, of a Yorkshire stock; educated at Hawkshead Grammar School and at St. John s College, Cambridge; travelled in France at the Revolution period, and was smitten with the Republican fever, which however soon spent… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Wordsworth,William — Words·worth (wûrdzʹwûrth ), William. 1770 1850. British poet whose most important collection, Lyrical Ballads (1798), published jointly with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped establish romanticism in England. He was appointed poet laureate in 1843 …   Universalium