ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Wordsworth was born in ____
A
Stratford At Avon
B
London
C
Cockermouth
D
Britain
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth in Cumbria. His father was a lawyer. Both Wordsworth’s parents died before he was 15, and he and his four siblings were left in the care of different relatives. As a young man, Wordsworth developed a love of nature, a theme reflected in many of his poems.

Detailed explanation-2: -The son of John and Ann Cookson Wordsworth, William Wordworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, located in the Lake District of England: an area that would become closely associated with Wordsworth for over two centuries after his death.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth, (born April 7, 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England-died April 23, 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland), English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 Born in Cockermouth, Wordsworth spent some years away from Cumbria both in the UK and in Europe, but was eventually drawn back to the area’s natural beauty and spent around fifty years living there before his death in 1850.

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