Once again, I feel the need to talk about William Wordsworth. Many of us have just read the “Lucy Gray” poems, and that’s it. My guess: Not many people in our English class know the background to Wordsworth and why he may have written these sets of poems. Plus, there is just a lot of interesting things that happened to William Wordsworth before the “Lucy” poems. To start of, the man was born in 1770 and died in 1850 (he died at the age of 80, which was very old for that time period).