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Wordsworth chronology & bio Flashcards

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What was the date of WW’s birth?

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April 7, 1770

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Where was WW born?

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Cockermouth, Cumberland

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Who was WW’s father?

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John Wordsworth

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WW’s father, John, was law-agent to whom?

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Sir James Lowther (later Lord Lonsdale)

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Who was WW’s mother?

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Anne Wordsworth

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What day was DW born?

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December 25, 1771

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In 1776, WW started studying Latin at a school in Penrith. What was the name of the school?

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Gilbanks’ school

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What year did Anne Wordsworth die?

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1778

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What was the name of the grammar school WW began attending in 1779?

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Hawkshead Free Grammar School

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What year did WW’s father, John Wordsworth, die?

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1783

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After the death of WW’s father, who assumed responsibility for the children?

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Richard Wordsworth, a cousin, and Christopher Cookson, an uncle

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What year did WW compose his first verses?

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1784

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WW’s first published poem, “Sonnet, on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress,” appears in the European Magazine in what year?

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1787 (the same year he enters St. John’s College, Cambridge

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What year does WW enter St. John’s College, Cambridge?

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1787 (the same year he publishes his first poem in European Magazine)

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What year does WW begin composing ‘An Evening Walk’?

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1788

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What year does WW embark on a walking tour with Robert Jones through France, Switzerland, and the Rhineland?

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1790

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What year does WW receive his BA from Cambridge?

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1791

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What year does WW climb Mt. Snowdon, as described in Prelude 13?

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1791

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With 40 pounds from his cousin Richard, WW travels to Paris and then Orleans, where he becomes acquainted with the Dufour and Vallon families. What year?

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1791

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What year does WW compose ‘Descriptive Sketches’?

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1791

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WW travels to Blois, befriends Michel Beaupuy, and has love affair with Annette Vallon in what year?

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1792

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What year is Anne-Caroline Wordsworth, daughter of William and Annette Vallon, born?

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1792

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France declares war on Britain in the same year that WW does the following:
1. Publishes ‘An Evening Walk’ and ‘Descriptive Sketches’
2. Writes (but does not publish) ‘Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff’
3. Takes walking tour of Salisbury Plain and Wales
4. Visits Stonehenge and Tintern Abbey
5. Begins composing Salisbury Plain
What year is this?

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1793

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In what year is WW reunited with DW in Halifax, Yorkshire?

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1794 (WW and DW travel together to the Lake District and nurse Raisley Calvert in Keswick)

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What year does Raisley Calvert pass away, and what does Calvert leave to WW?

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1795; a 900-pound legacy

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In what year does WW:

  1. Meet frequently with William Godwin in London;
  2. Meet Robert Southey and Coleridge in Bristol;
  3. Revise ‘Salisbury Plain’;
  4. Move with DW to Racedown, Dorset
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1795

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In what year does WW 1. face a moral crisis (described in Prelude 10), and 2. begin ‘The Borderers’?

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1796

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In what year does WW complete ‘The Borderers’ and begin ‘The Ruined Cottage’?

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1797

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In what year do WW and DW move to Alfoxden Farm, Somerset, in order to be nearer Coleridge?

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1797 (visits from John Thelwall, Basil Montagu, and Joseph Cottle arouse suspicion of government spies)

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In what year does WW 1. take his first walking tour with STC and DW; 2. Plan composition of “Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Lyrical Ballads’ w/ STC?

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1797

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31
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In what year does WW:

  1. Plan ‘The Recluse’
  2. Compose sections of ‘The Ruined Cottage,’ ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar,’ poems for ‘LB,’ and ‘Peter Bell’?
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1798

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In what year does WW first revisit Tintern Abbey and Wye River valley with DW, followed by his composition of the famous poem?

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1798

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33
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The first edition of Lyrical Ballads is published in September of what year?

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1798

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In what year does WW spend autumn and winter with DW in Goslar, composing the first version of ‘The Prelude,’ ‘Ruth,’ and the ‘Lucy poems’?

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1798

35
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In this eventful year, WW:

  1. Returns to England with DW
  2. Develops plan of The Prelude
  3. Revise ‘The Borderers’ and ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’
  4. Take a walking tour with STC
  5. Move to Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with DW
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1799

36
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In what year does WW:

  1. Begin ‘Home at Grasmere’
  2. Plans, and composes new poems for, the second edition of ‘Lyrical Ballads’
A

1800

37
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Though the title page displays the previous year’s date, the second edition of ‘Lyrical Ballads’ is published in January of what year?

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1801

38
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In what year does WW begin to receive frequent visits from Mary Hutchinson?

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1801 (the same year the second ed. of Lyrical Ballads is pub’d)

39
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In what year does the Coleridge family move into Greta Hall, Keswick?

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1800

40
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In what year does WW:

  1. Compose ‘The Leech Gatherer’ (published years later, in 1807, as ‘Resolution and Independence)
  2. Visit Annette Vallon and daughter Caroline with DW in Calais during the peace of Amiens
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1802

41
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What year does WW get married to Mary Hutchinson?

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1802

42
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What year does WW visit Annette Vallon and daughter Caroline with DW in Calais during the Peace of Amiens?

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1802

43
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What year is WW and MW’s first son, John, born?

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1803

44
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In what year does WW complete his second walking tour with STC and DW, this time in Scotland, where he meets Walter Scott?

A

1803

45
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In what year do the following occur:

  1. WW enlarges ‘The Prelude’ from five-book plan.
  2. WW communicates plan of The Recluse to Thomas De Quincey
  3. WW and MW’s second child, a daughter, Dora, is born
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1804

46
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In February of what year does WW learn that his brother John has drowned in the wreck of The Earl of Abergavenny?

A

1805

47
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What year is WW and DW’s brother John born?

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1772

48
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In what year is the fourth edition of LB published?

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1805

49
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In what year do the following occur:

  1. WW is in London, meeting literary and political figures
  2. WW and MW’s third child, a son, Thomas, is born
  3. Wordsworths live at the Beaumonts’ house in Coleorton, Leicestershire, where they receive a visit from STC
A

1806

50
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What year does WW read The Prelude to STC?

A

1807

51
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What year does WW publish ‘Poems, in Two Volumes’ (to unfavorable reviews)?

A

1807

52
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In what year does WW begin composing The White Roe of Rylstone?

A

1807

53
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In what year does the following occur:

  1. WW assists STC with his periodical The Friend
  2. WW and MW’s fourth child, a daughter, Caroline, is born
  3. WW is visited by De Quincey
  4. The Wordsworths move to Allan Bank, Grasmere
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1808

54
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In what year does WW contribute ‘Essays upon Epitaphs’ to The Friend and work on ‘The Excursion’?

A

1810

55
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What year is WW and MW’s fifth child, William, born?

A

1810

56
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In what year does WW make unflattering comments about STC to Basil Montagu, precipitating a two-year break with STC?

A

1810

57
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In what year does Henry Crabb Robinson effect a partial reconciliation between WW and STC after the Montagu affair separated them?

A

1812

58
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In what year do two of WW’s children pass away, Catharine and Thomas?

A

1812

59
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In what year does the following occur:

  1. WW works on The Excursion
  2. WW is appointed Distributor of Stamps (a position in the revenue service) for Westmorland
  3. Wordsworths move to Rydal Mount, WW’s final home
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1813

60
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In what year do the following occur:

  1. WW revises The Excursion and publishes it to unfavorable reviews
  2. WW writes ‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’ for a collection of his poems
  3. WW tours Scotland with Mary and Sara Hutchinson
A

1814

61
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In what year does WW publish the second edition of Poems, in Two Vol.’s in addition to ‘The White Doe of Rylestone’?

A

1815

62
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What year is the much reviled ‘Thanksgiving Ode’ published? (Also the year WW’s daughter Caroline marries Jean-Baptiste Baudouin in Paris)

A

1816

63
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In what year does WW: 1. Read STC’s criticism of his poetry & poetic theory in Biographia Literaria; 2. Have strained exchanges with STC at dinner parties in London; 3. Meet John Keats at Charles Lamb’s “Immortal Dinner.”

A

1817

64
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In what year does WW:

  1. Receive two visits from Keats in London
  2. Propagandize in Westmorland on behalf of Tory party before general election
  3. Compose sonnets about the River Duddon
A

1818

65
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In what year does WW publish ‘Peter Bell’ and ‘The Waggoner’?

A

1819

66
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In what year do the following occur:

  1. WW publishes The River Duddon
  2. WW, MW, DW, and others tour Belgium, the Rhineland, Switzerland, northern Italy, and France, with Crabb Robinson joining the party in Switzerland.
  3. WW meets Annette Vallon and Caroline Baudouin in Paris.
  4. WW publishes Poems in four volumes
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1820

67
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What year does WW publish Ecclesiastical Sketches and the first separate edition of A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes?

A

1822

68
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In what year does WW 1. Suffer from trachoma; 2. Abandon a planned trip with MW to Belgium, Holland, and France; 3. Translate books 1 and 2 of Virgil’s Aeneid?

A

1823

69
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What year does WW tour Belgium, the Rhineland, and Holland with Dora and STC?

A

1828

70
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What year does WW tour Ireland with John Marshall, a longtime acquaintance?

A

1829

71
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What year does WW 1. Receive visit from Felicia Hemans; 2. Visit Coleridge in Highgate

A

1830

72
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In what year does WW 1. Attend meetings of opponents to parliamentary reform; 2. Begin revising The Prelude?

A

1831

73
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In what year is WW visited by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

A

1833

74
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In what year does WW learn that STC died, and Dora becomes seriously ill?

A

1834

75
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In what year does WW:

  1. Publish first American edition of his poetical works
  2. Tour France, Italy, Austria, and Germany with Crabb Ronbinson, seeing Annette and Caroline for the last time in Paris and visiting Keats’s friend Joseph Severn in Rome
A

1837

76
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What year does WW receive an honorary degree from the new University of Durham?

A

1838

77
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What year does WW make his final revisions to The Prelude?

A

1839

78
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In what year does WW receive visit from the Queen Dowager?

A

1840

79
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What year does Dora Wordsworth marry Edward Quillinan after a long engagement?

A

1841

80
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What year does WW accept the Poet Laureateship?

A

1843

81
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What year does Dora Wordsworth die of tuberculosis?

A

1847

82
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What year does the following occur:

  1. WW suffers attack of pleurisy
  2. WW dies and is buried in Grasmere
  3. Mary gives The Prelude its title and arranges for its publication
  4. The Prelude (fourteen-book version) is published
A

1850

83
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What is the date of WW’s death?

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April 23, 1850

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