FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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Cambridge, England
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Harvard University, USA
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University of Pennsylvania, USA
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John’s College, Cambridge. He received his BA degree in 1791.
Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth was born in 1770. He grew up in the Lake District (with which he is often associated) and went to grammar school at Hawkshead in Furness. His first departure from this part of the country took him to St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1787.
Detailed explanation-3: -Admission to St John’s Despite being admitted to a Scholarship on the basis of academic merit in his first term, Wordsworth had little enthusiasm for the mathematical curriculum offered at Cambridge, and chose to apply his time instead to general reading and the study of Italian.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1781 she enrolled in Hipperholme Boarding School. When her father died in 1783, the family’s financial situation worsened and the children were sent to live with their uncles. Wordsworth changed schools, entering Miss Medlin’s school, where she first read Milton, Shakespeare, and Homer.
Detailed explanation-5: -In a chance meeting that would change the course of poetic history, Samuel Taylor Coleridge made the acquaintance of William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, in Somerset in 1795. The two became immediate friends.