In which Cumbrian town was William Wordsworth born?
William Wordsworth five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland, part of the scenic region in northwestern England known as the Lake District. William's sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was captain, the
Cumbrian dialect as well as Border Ballads, poems by William Wordsworth and family, and other verse of regional interest. Some later poets include John Sewart ("Rhymes in the Westmoreland Dialect", Settle, 1869) and Gwordie Greenup (the pseudonym of Stanley Martin), who published short collections in prose and verse during the 1860s and 1870s. A more recent anthology, "Oor mak o' toak: an anthology of Lakeland dialect poems, 1747-1946", was published from Carlisle in 1946 by the Lakeland Dialect Society. Cumbrian dialect The Cumbrian dialect is a local Northern English dialect in decline, spoken in Cumberland, Westmorland and surrounding northern England, not to