About
English Romantic poet who is remembered for such poems as "To the Cuckoo," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," and "Tintern Abbey." His poetry collections include The Excursion, The Prelude, and Lyrical Ballads.
Before Fame
He was one of five children born to Ann Cookson Wordsworth and John Wordsworth in England's Lake District. He graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge.
Trivia
He was very close to his sister Dorothy, who was also a poet.
Family Life
He had an illegitimate daughter with Annette Vallon. He later married Mary Hutchinson, with whom he had five children.
Associated With
Like his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth was an important English Romantic poet.
