FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Racedown House in Dorset
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Alfoxton House in Somerset
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Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Lake District
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of “plain living, but high thinking".
Detailed explanation-2: -After attending Cambridge University and then living in Dorset, Wordsworth moved back to the Lake District to Dove Cottage in Grasmere in 1799 and then Rydal Mount in 1813.
Detailed explanation-3: -As Dove Cottage became too small, the family moved to Allan Bank in Grasmere where they lived for three years. The move must have made amusing local gossip, as Wordsworth had been against the house being built in the first place!
Detailed explanation-4: -Located in Grasmere, Wordsworth lived in Dove Cottage from 1799 until 1808, where he wrote much of his popular poetry, and his sister, Dorothy, also kept her journals.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1799 William Wordsworth arrived in Grasmere aged 29, largely unknown and writing innovative poetry in a new style. Whilst living at Dove Cottage with his family, Wordsworth wrote many of his greatest poems and his sister Dorothy kept her Grasmere journal.