Wordsworth Walk – William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland, an area with which he will always be associated. As a boy, he began writing poetry and early on showed a sympathy for nature; his intense lifelong friendship with his sister Dorothy also started then. He was in France at the start of the French Revolution and developed a passion for republican democracy. He is best known for Lyrical Ballads (which included Tinturn Abbey), co-written with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude.  At one point the authorities feared that the Wordworths and Coleridge were spies for France. He grew more conservative as he got older, and became disillusioned with revolutionary France. When he died in 1850, he had for some years been venerated as a sage, his most ardent detractors glossing over the radical origins of his poetics and politics.