William Wordsworth was an influential poet who wrote most of his poetry during the Romantic period of the early 1800s. He had many things that influenced his writing. Events that happened in his life, the time period in which he lived, and nature are three of the main things that contributed to his writing style.

Wordsworth was born in the late 1700s in the Lade District in England. His mother died when he was eight, and his father died when Wordsworth was a boy. He lived with his four siblings and became extremely close to his sister, Dorothy. He would continue to live with her and mention her in his poem "The Prelude." He enrolled in St. Joseph's college in Cambridge but neither excelled academically or was popular among his peers. This caused him to spend a lot of time alone thinking and writing, and this is when...