William Wordsworth Archives - Summaries & Essays

Essay About William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland. William’s father John Wordsworth was a legal agent and attorney who died when William was only 8 years old. William’s mother Ann Cookson Wordsworth remarried in 1783 to William Cookson. William has four siblings: Dorothy, John, Christopher, and Dora. In 1787, William attended Hawkshead … Read more

Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Literary Devices

William Wordsworth’s poem Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey recalls a blissful time William had spent with his sister and William Cook on a stroll through the Wye Valley in 1798. William first describes how he is ‘half-sad’ because of the happiness he experienced, but also half-happy because it was not permanent. William … Read more