Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might; To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, The Clouds that gather round the setting sun That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF WORDSWORTH WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, second son of John Penrith, d. 1778) his wife, born At Hawkshead Grammar School April 7, 1770 1778-86 Settled at Racedown, Dorset, with his sister Dorothy (b. 1771). 1795 Moved, with his sister, to Alfoxden, Somerset 1797 Lyrical Ballads (containing Lines written a few Miles above Tintern Abbey,' Coleridge's 'The Winter in Germany (Goslar) with his sister. Settled with Dorothy Wordsworth at Dove Cottage, He married his cousin, Mary Hutchinson His younger and favourite brother John lost at sea. 1798 1798-9 Dec. 1799 Oct. 4, 1802 Feb. 5, 1805 They left Grasmere for Rydal Mount Received the honorary degree of D.C.L. at Oxford, being introduced to the Vice-Chancellor by Keble, then Professor of Poetry . Appointed Poet Laureate, on Southey's death His daughter Dora, wife of Edward Quillinan, died. 80 years 1808 1811 1813 July 1839 April 1843 July 9, 1847 April 23, 1850 (Wordsworth's wife and sister both survived him, the latter dying on January 25, 1855, the former living until January 17, 1859.) CONTENTS * The Editor is responsible for the titles thus indicated. Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in anticipation of leaving School Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the Shore, commanding a beautiful Prospect Simon Lee, the old Huntsman; with an incident in which PAGE 3 3 5 6 8 16 Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 28 Nutting 32 Strange fits of passion have I known 34 She dwelt among the untrodden ways I travelled among unknown men A slumber did my spirit seal. A Poet's Epitaph The Two April Mornings 35 36 36 37 38 40 |