White Doe of Rylstone

Also includes ‘England’ and ‘The Waggoner’

William Wordsworth was born on 7th April, 1770 in Cockermouth, in Cumbria, northwest England.

Wordsworth spent his early years in his beloved Lake District often with his sister, Dorothy. The English lakes could terrify as well as nurture, and as Wordsworth would write “I grew up fostered alike by beauty and by fear,”

After being schooled at Hawkshead he we...