Born in 1770; died in 1850; graduated from Cambridge in
1791; traveled on the Continent in 1790-92; settled at
Grasmere in 1799; married Mary Hutchinson in 1802; settled
at Rydal Mount in 1813; traveled in Scotland in 1814 and in
1832; traveled on the Continent again in 1820 and in 1837;
became poet laureate in 1843; published his first volume in
1793 and his last, "The Prelude," in 1850.