* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

* 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( d. 1850 )

Similarly in England William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced a collection of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, including Coleridge ’ s ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’.

** The Prelude by William Wordsworth

A literary interest in the popular ballad was not new ; it dates back to Thomas Percy and William Wordsworth.

It is a parody of " Resolution and Independence " by William Wordsworth.

Rousseau's writings had an indirect influence on American literature through the writings of Wordsworth and Kant, whose works were important to the New England Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as on such Unitarians as theologian William Ellery Channing.

These included the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and others prior to their disillusionment with the outbreak of the Reign of Terror.

Initially the medieval Arthurian legends were of particular interest to poets, inspiring, for example, William Wordsworth to write " The Egyptian Maid " ( 1835 ), an allegory of the Holy Grail.

In September 1797, Coleridge lived in Stowey in the south west of England and spent much of his time walking through the nearby Quantock Hills with his fellow poet William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy ; ( His route today is memorialized as the " Coleridge Way ".

There followed the materialist and atheist Jean Meslier, Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d ' Holbach, Denis Diderot, and other French Enlightenment thinkers ; as well as in England, John " Walking " Stewart, whose insistence that all matter is endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth.

In 1835, the English poet William Wordsworth described the Lake District as a The painter George Catlin, in his travels through the American West, wrote during the 1830s that the Native Americans in the United States might be preserved

The Pindarick of Cowley was revived around 1800 by William Wordsworth for one of his very finest poems, the Intimations of Immortality ode ; irregular odes were also written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote odes with regular stanza patterns.

* William Wordsworth

For a time during the 19th century pantheism was the theological viewpoint of many leading writers and philosophers, attracting figures such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge in Britain ; Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Germany ; Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the USA.

In 1807, William Wordsworth finished his sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to Nature, which opens " The world is too much with us ", with a sense of nostalgia for the lost richness of a world numinous with deities:

* 1802 – William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.

The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, used this Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District.

After the death of their mother, in 1778, John Wordsworth sent William to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire and Dorothy to live with relatives in Yorkshire ; she and William would not meet again for another nine years.

* William " Willy " Wordsworth ( 12 May 1810 – 1883 ).

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )

# 1760 – 1770 Sir William Baker

* 1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( b. 1770 )

* April 23 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( b. 1770 )

William Shirley, former governor of Massachusetts, was appointed governor of the Bahamas in 1758 and served until 1770.

In 1770 William Willoughby took over Highbury Barn and greatly increased its popularity.

* Frederick William III of Prussia ( 1770 – 1840 ), King of Prussia

Tryon Palace was completed in 1770 and was the former home of British governor William Tryon.

In 1770, George Washington and his friend and personal surveyor, William Crawford ( soldier ), embarked on a journey down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh for the purpose of viewing lands to be apportioned among soldiers who had served in the French and Indian War.

Named after the famous British statesman William Pitt the Elder, the city was settled around 1770 by the Susquehanna Company of Connecticut.

Washington acquired the parcel in 1770, and designated Colonel William Crawford to survey the lands in 1771.

Around 1770 the site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobson's Crossroads.

The gang's leader, David Hartley, or King David as he was known, was found guilty of the 1769 murder of excise official William Dighton and was hanged at the York Tyburn on 28 April 1770.

In 1811 he co-operated with William Allen ( 1770 – 1843 ), a Quaker and chemist, in a periodical called the Philanthropist.

Although some contemporary sources suggest there was coal mining in Oldham at a commercial scale by 1738, older sources attribute the commercial expansion of coal mining with the arrival in the town of two Welsh labourers, John Evans and William Jones, around 1770.

William Beckford ( 19 December 1709 – 21 June 1770 ) was a well-known political figure in 18th century London, who twice held the office of Lord Mayor of London ( 1762 and 1769 ).

Close by were the residences of three prominent Quaker abolitionists: William Allen ( 1770 – 1843 ), Joseph Woods the elder, and Samuel Hoare Jr ( 1751 – 1825 ).

In 1770 heiress Margaret Dixon married William Brown.

William Clark ( August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838 ) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor.

William Clark was born in Caroline County, Virginia, on August 1, 1770, the ninth of ten children of John and Ann Rogers Clark.