WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
One of the greatest modern Englisli' poets wafl.born at Cockermouth, in Cumberland, England, in 1770. He lost his parents while quite young, and his friends wished him to become a clergyman. Ho had, however, a great natural love of scenery and country life, and could never settlo down to study for any profession. When, he was about twenty, he mado % walking tour through France aitfSwitzerland; and returning to •EngMk spent' an aimlesß life, till haring sot" money left him, though not a largo sum, he waß. enabled to devote his timo 'to poetry. Coleridge and Southoy wore'among hia' peatest' triends, and on the death of tho latter, Wordsworth became PoetLauroatej his lmfc effort, as such, being an ode for the installation of Prince Albert as OlianceHorof the University of Cambridge. Wordsworth married his cousin, Mary Hutchinson, and after nearly fifty year# of great doraestio happiness, #sd, at' Eydal Mount, April 23, 1860,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2463, 29 November 1886, Page 2
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154WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2463, 29 November 1886, Page 2
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