What is William Wordsworth?
{{Infobox Writer | name = William Wordsworth | image = William wordsworth.jpg | caption = William Wordsworth. | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1770|04|07}} | birth_place = [[Wordsworth House]], [[Cockermouth]], [[Cumberland]], [[England]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1850|04|23|1770|04|07}} | death_place = Cumberland, England | occupation = [[Poet]] | movement = [[Romanticism]] | genre = [[Poetry]] | notableworks = ''Lyrical Ballads'', ''Poems in Two Volumes'', ''The Excursion'' | influences = | influenced = }} '''William Wordsworth''' (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an important [[poet]] of the [[Romanticism|Romantic Age]] in [[English literature]]. Many people think that ''The Prelude'', an autobiographical [[poem]] of his early years is his masterpiece. Wordsworth was England's [[Poet Laureate]] from 1843, until his death in 1850. == Biography == === Early life and education === Wordsworth was born as second of five children in the [[Lake District]]. After the death of his mother in 1778, his father sent him to ''Hawkshead'' Grammar School. In 1783 his father, a [[lawyer]] and a [[wikt:solicitor|solicitor]], died. Although many aspects of his boyhood were positive, he remembered times of loneliness and anxiety. It took him many years, and much writing, to recover from the death of his parents. Wordsworth went to ''St John's College'', [[Cambridge]] in 1787. Three years later, in 1790, he visited [[French Revolution|Revolutionary]] [[France]] and supported the Republican movement, although the [[Reign of Terror]] later made him change his mind.(see Prelude book 10) The following year, he [[wikt:graduate|graduated]] from Cambridge. === Relationship with Annette Vallon === In November 1791, Wordsworth returned to France and took a walking tour of Europe that included the [[Alps]] and [[Italy]]. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their child, Caroline. Because he was poor and there were tensions between Britain and