Daffodils (William Wordsworth)

In the Lake District was born the Great Nature Poet of all times, William Wordsworth on April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth on the River Derwent. Born to an attorney, Wordsworth was the second, with an elder brother Richard, a younger sister, Dorothy and two younger brothers, John and Christopher. His father, Attorney, John Wordsworth, born to a lawyer, was the personal attorney of Sir James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale. The magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworth&imagination and gave him a love of nature. In 1850 William caught a cold on a country walk, and he died on 23 April, St George&day, 80 years after his birth. Mary died in 1859, exactly nine years after the poet&demise. He and Mary have a simple tombstone in the churchyard of St Oswald&Church in Grasmere, now one of the most visited literary shrines in the world.