Entries for the tag ‘Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)’
Poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint Lyrical Ballads (1798). 
- 15 July 1802: In the Hambleton Hills, Dorothy and William Wordsworth visit Rievaulx and see Scottish cattle travelling to London
- 26 July 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth travels with brother William from Scarborough across the Wolds to Beverley and Hull
- 30 May 1835: Alfred Austin, future poet laureate, “Banjo-Byron that twangs the strum-strum,” is born into rural splendour at Ashwood, 48 Headingley Lane, Leeds
- 12 March 1837: Robert Southey (poet laureate, 62) sends Charlotte Brontë (governess, 20) some career advice
- 20 July 1858: Walter White visits Mill Gill and Whitfield Gill Force near Askrigg (Wensleydale)
- 20 June 1881: John Tutin of Hull visits Hart-leap Well, the subject of Wordsworth’s anti-hunting poem
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