My favourite poet

My favourite poet is none other than Williams Wordsworth. His poems are full of figurativelanguage and they appeal very much to me. Some of his poems are : Resolution and independence, I wandered lonely as a cloud and london 1802.

Born on 7th april, 1770, was the secong among his other 4 siblings. He was very close with his sister, who was a poet too. Wordsworth's father, although rarely present, did teach him poetry, in addition to allowing his son to rely on his father's library. Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That year, he also began attending college, and received his degree in 1791. He returned to Hawkshead(village in england) for his first two summer holidays, and often spent later holidays on walking tours, visiting places famous for the beauty of their landscape. In November 1791, Wordsworth visited France and became enthralled with the Republican movement. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their child, Caroline. Because of lack of money, returned alone to England the following year

Wordsworth received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in 1838 from Durham University, and the same honor from Oxford University the next year. He also became the Poet Laureate(poet appointed by government and compose poems for special occasions). When his daughter, Dora, died in 1847, his production of poetry came to a standstill.


Refences:
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth#The_Poet_Laureate_and_other_honors
-http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_wordsworth/poems