PRINCIPAL DATES IN THE LIFE

1770, 7 April.

1771, 25 Dec.

1778.

1783.

1785.

1787.

1790, summer.

1791, Jan.

OF WORDSWORTH

Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland.
Birth of Dorothy Wordsworth.

Enters Hawkshead grammar school, West-
morland.

Death of his father, John Wordsworth.
Composition of his earliest poem now
known to exist, Lines written as a school
exercise at Hawkshead on the second
centenary of the foundation of the
school.

Goes into residence at St John's college,
Cambridge.

Visits France with Robert Jones, walking
through France and Switzerland to the
lake of Como.

Takes his B.A. degree and leaves Cambridge.

1791, Nov.-1792. Residence in France: visits Paris and

1792, Oct.

1793.

1795.

1795, Oct.

1797, June.

T. W.

stays at Orléans and Blois.

Returns to England, and leads a restless and unsettled life, without a permanent home, till 1795.

Publication of An Evening Walk. An
Epistle; in Verse (written 1787-9), fol-
lowed by Descriptive Sketches, a memorial
of the tour of 1790, written in France,
1791-2.

Receives a legacy of £900 from Raisley
Calvert.

Settles at Racedown, Dorset, with Dorothy
Wordsworth. First meeting with Cole
ridge at Bristol about this time.
Coleridge visits Racedown.

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1797, July.

1798, Sept.

1799, April.

1799, May-Oct.

1799, Oct., Nov.

1799, Dec.

1801, Jan.

1802, 21 May. 1802, 9 July.

1802, 4 Oct.

The Wordsworths visit Coleridge at Nether Stowey, Somerset, and remove from Racedown to Alfoxden, near Stowey. Publication of Lyrical Ballads, the result of collaboration with Coleridge. The Wordsworths leave Alfoxden and go to Germany with Coleridge and John Chester on 14 Sept. From 6 Oct. they make their head-quarters at Goslar in Hanover.

1803, 18 June. 1803, 14 Aug.-25

1804, 16 Aug. 1805.

Return to England, after a short visit to
Coleridge at Göttingen.

Residence at Sockburn, co. Durham, with
his cousins, the Hutchinsons.

Tour in the Lake country with John
Wordsworth, Coleridge and Joseph

Cottle.

Settles, with Dorothy Wordsworth, at
Dove cottage, Grasmere.

Publication of Lyrical Ballads, 2d ed., in
two vols. (dated 1800) with preface ex-
plaining Wordsworth's theory of poetry.
3d ed., 1802; 4th ed., 1805.

First sonnets written.

Leaves Grasmere with Dorothy for Yorkshire. They go from Yorkshire to London, spend Aug. at Calais, and are in London again, 30 Aug.-22 Sept. Marries Mary Hutchinson (born 16 Aug.,

1770) at Brompton-in-Pickering-lythe, Yorks. They return to Grasmere, 6 Oct. Birth of Wordsworth's eldest son, John. Sept. Tour in Scotland with Dorothy and Coleridge, with Dorothy alone after 29 Aug. First visit to Scott, 17 Sept.

Birth of Dora Wordsworth.
Completes The Prelude, begun 1799-1800,
continued 1804-5, published 1850.

PRINCIPAL DATES IN THE LIFE OF WORDSWORTH Xi

1806, Oct.

Removes temporarily from Grasmere to
Coleorton, Leices.

1806, Dec.-1807, Feb. Coleridge visits Coleorton.

1807.

1807, Aug.

1808, June.

1809, May.

1810, April.

1810, Oct.

1811.

1812, 4 June.

1813, March.

1814, July.

1814, Aug.

1815, March.

Publication of Poems in Two Volumes.
Wordsworth returns to Grasmere.
Removes from Dove cottage to Allan
Bank, Grasmere.

Publication of pamphlet Concerning the
Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and
Portugal, to each other, and to the common
enemy, at this Crisis, upon the con-
vention of Cintra.

Publication of Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes (introduction to Thomas Wilkinson's Select Views in Cumberland, etc.: published separately 1822).

Beginning of estrangement from Coleridge,
due to the tactlessness of Basil Montagu,
and lasting till May, 1812.

Removes from Allan Bank to the Rectory,
Grasmere.

Death of Catherine Wordsworth, second
daughter (born 6 Sept. 1808); followed,
I Dec., by death of Thomas, second son
(born 16 June, 1806).
Appointed stamp-distributor for West-
morland. Removes from Grasmere
rectory to Rydal Mount, his home for
the rest of his life.

Second tour in Scotland, with his wife and
Sara Hutchinson.

Publication of The Excursion, begun 1802,
written chiefly 1809-13.

Publication of Poems by William Wordsworth, 2 vols., a collected edition of all his published poems except The Excursion, classified under specific headings.

1815, May.

1816.

1819, Apr., May.

1820, May.

1820, July.

Publication of The White Doe of Rylstone, begun on a visit to Stockton-on-Tees in Dec., 1807.

Publication of Thanksgiving Ode, Jan. 18, 1816, with other short pieces.

Publication of Peter Bell, a tale in verse, and The Waggoner, a Poem.

Publication of The River Duddon, a series of sonnets. Leaves Rydal Mount with his wife and sister for visit to London and continental tour.

Publication of Miscellaneous Poems, 4 vols., a collected edition, excluding The Excursion, of which a 2nd ed. appears this year.

1820, 11 July-Nov.

1822.

1823, May, June.

1824, Aug.-Oct. 1827.

1828, June.

1829, Aug., Sept.

1831, Sept., Oct.

1832.

Tour to Switzerland and the Italian
Lakes. Returns to Rydal Mount, 24
Dec.
Publication of Memorials of a Tour on
the Continent, 1820, and Ecclesiastical
Sketches, afterwards called Ecclesiastical
Sonnets.

Tour in the Netherlands.
Tour in Wales.

Publication of Poetical Works, 5 vols., in-
cluding The Excursion, with dedication
to Sir George Beaumont of Coleorton
(d. Feb. of this year).

Tour on the Rhine with Dora Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Tour in Ireland.

Tour in Scotland with Dora and his nephew Charles, visiting Scott at Abbotsford on the way.

Publication of Poetical Works, 4 vols.

. 1833, Sept., Oct. Tour in Isle of Man and Scotland with

his eldest son (rector of Moresby, Cumberland) and Crabb Robinson.

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1834, 25 July.

1835.

Death of Coleridge.

Publication of Yarrow Revisited and other poems.

1835, Aug.-Nov. Stays with Thomas Hutchinson at Brinsop court, near Hereford.

1836-7.

1837, March-Aug.

1838, June. 1838.

1839, July.

1841, Apr.-Aug.

1842, April.

1843, 21 March.

1843, April.

1845.

1847, 6 July.

1849-50.

Publication of Poetical Works, 6 vols.

Tour in France and Italy with Crabb
Robinson.

Publication of Sonnets in collected edition.
Receives D.C.L. degree at Durham.
Receives D.C.L. degree at Oxford.

Visits West of England and places asso-
ciated with his early poems. Marriage
of Dora Wordsworth and Edward Quil
linan at Bath, II May (Dora died
9 July, 1847).

Publication of Poems, chiefly of early and
late years, including The Borderers and
other unpublished pieces (added as vol. 7
to Poetical Works). Resigns his stamp-
distributorship in July, and receives an
annual pension of £300 from the civil
list in Oct.

Death of Southey.
Appointed Poet laureate.

Publication of collected Poems, I vol.
Ode celebrating the installation of prince
Albert as chancellor of the University
performed in the Senate house, Cam-
bridge.

Publication of Poetical Works, 6 vols., with
revised text.

1850, 23 April. Death of Wordsworth.

Buried at Gras

1850.

mere, 27 April.

Publication of The Prelude (vol. 8 of
Poetical Works: for vol. 7 see 1842).