Life of William Wordsworth

I read a biography online written by Glenn Everett , about William Wordsworth  to find out more about
Wordsworth. William Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland. William was the second child of five children, his father was a law agent and  a rent collector.  His mother died in 1778 and William was sent off to a grammar school called Hawkshead. In 1787 he went to the St. John’s college, he liked to hike a lot, he hiked all over Cumberland, then two years later went on a hiking tour of France, Switzerland, and Germany. He trekked through the Wales, after he graduated. In 1794 he found his sister Dorothy, who became his companion and moral support, his friend, and housekeeper. In the 1930’s Dorothy had a mental and physical decline and William went away, a year after he met Coleridge and the two of them met very often. They became very close and stared to talk about poetry and started to plan Lyrical Ballads. William got married to Mary Hutchinson and they had five kids, after the death of two of his children in 1812 and 1813, he got a job as a stamp distributor. After he got this job he was financially secure. William started to make sketches and then moved to poetry where he found out he was very good at it, he soon became very popular and started to create short poems and then some long poems, he liked to write long poems so he began to make a long three part poem with 17,000 lines about, man, nature, and society. Soon inspiration failed him for this project and he just began to revise the prelude. William spent most of his later life revising this prelude which the critics argued if the 1805 version was better than the 1850 version. William met up with Coleridge and they toured the Rhineland in 1828. William was given a Doctor of Civil Law by Durham University, and Oxford did the same thing the next year. William died in 1850, his beloved wife published his prelude that summer.