In addition to spending his time reading in Cockermouth, he would stay at his mother's parents home in Penrith, for extended periods of time, which took place primarily during 1775–1776 and during the winter months of 1776–1777. Wordsworth's father, although rarely present, did teach him poetry, including that of Milton, Shakespeare, and Spenser, in addition to allowing his son to rely on his father's library. Although he lived at his father's mansion, Wordsworth, as with his siblings, had little involvement with their father, and they would be distant with him until his death in 1783. They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest who became a lawyer John, born after Dorothy, who would become a poet and enjoy nature with William and Dorothy until he died in an 1805 shipwreck and Christopher, the youngest, who would become a scholar and eventually Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. His sister, the poet, and diarist Dorothy, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptized together. Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, the second of five children. William's mother died when he was 7 years old and he became an orphan at the age of 13 years. However, the brother's relationship was not strained by this decision, and Richard would become guardian to John's children after his death. John owned many properties, in Cockermouth and Ravenglass, and he inherited a property at Sockbridge, which was originally purchased by his father and given to John after his older brother, Richard, was disinherited by their father. John, at the age of 26, married Ann, 18, in 1766, and he used his connections with the Lowther family to move into a large mansion in the small town of Cockermouth, Cumbria, in the Lake District. Ann's brother, Christopher "Kit" Crackanthorpe Cookson (later, Christopher Crackanthorpe) inherited the family estate of Newbiggin Hall. They lived above Cookson's shop in Penrith, Cumbria. Īnn was the daughter of William Cookson, a linen-draper, and Dorothy Crackanthorpe, daughter of a gentry family in Westmorland. Like his father, John became a legal agent for James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and was made Bailiff and Recorder for Cockermouth and Coroner for the Seigniory of Millom. John was the son of Richard Wordsworth, a land owner who served as a legal agent to the Lowther family. Wordsworth's parents were John Wordsworth, a legal agent for James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and Collector of Customs at Whitehaven, and his wife, Ann Cookson. Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister, served as his early companion until their mother's death and their separation when he was sent to school. His early years were dominated by his experience of the countryside around the Lake District and the English moors. William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.
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