Part one of term paper
William Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770 in the village of Cockermouth, Cumberland, into a comfortable middleclass family with roots firmly planted in Lake County. In 1778, Ann Wordsworth died suddenly, and then, over the Christmas holidays of 1783-1784, John Wordsworth followed. (Dome critics have attributed Wordsworth's early maternal loss ...

Part two of term paper
... world and to begin to define himself in relation to that power. Wordsworth's college years were from 1787-1791 at St. John's college, Cambridge. He went on a walking tour with Robert Jones, a Cambridge student, over the French and Swiss Alps in 1790 and another such tour in 1791. In 1792, Wordsworth went to France, amidst the tumult of the French Revolution, where he met Michel Beaupuy, a French officer who is spoken of in The Prelude. In France, he also met Annette Vallon, with whom he had an illeg ...