William Wordsworth is dead, I know, but you have to love this guy! He was one of the two that started the English Romantic Movement with their collections of romantic poems. A British fellow who spent most of his life in the Lake District of Northern England, this man was more than just a poet, he was an artist, a muse in himself who gave inspiration to others to be... Romantic!
             William was born in the 1770's in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District. The enchanting surroundings added to William's imagination and gave him a love of nature. He lost his mother when he was eight, and his father died five years later. These tragic deaths separated him from his beloved and neurotic sister, Dorothy, who was a very important person in his life. Dorothy spent a lot of time outdoors, and when they were together, she provided William with much of his inspiration.
             Two uncles helped William go to local schools and continue his studies at Cambridge University. William first published a sonnet in The European Magazine in 1787, and also entered St. John's College, Cambridge. During a summer vacation in 1970 William went on a walking tour through revolutionary France and also traveled in Switzerland.
             On a second journey in France, William had an affair with a French girl (shame on him...) named Annette Vallon, a daughter of a barber-surgeon, whom he had a kid with! He had a daughter, "the illegitimate child" of William Wordsworth, dubbed Anne Caroline. Well, enough of that, let's get back to that affair... Well, the affair erupted from a poem he wrote, titled 'Vaudracour and Julia', but otherwise William did his best to hide the affair from his family (because he knew he should be ashamed...) After all this, he spent several aimless and unhappy years...
             But, in 1795 he met none other than Samuel Taylor Coleridge! Meeting this man brought luck to William, because William's financial situa...