page_title: William Wordsworth
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: William Wordsworth / Biography / Marriage
context_page_description: William Wordsworth was an important poet of the Romantic Age in English literature.
  Many people think that The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years is his masterpiece. Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
context_section_description: In 1802 he married a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson. Dorothy continued to live with the couple. 
  In 1807, his Poems in Two Volumes were published, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood". 
  Two of his children, Thomas and Catherine, died in 1812. In 1813 his family, including Dorothy, moved to Rydal Mount, Ambleside , where he spent the rest of his life.
caption: Portrait, 1842, by Benjamin Haydon
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