William Wordsworth

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

Wordsworth's magnum opus is loosely considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised as living as expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, previously which it was generally required as "the poem to Coleridge".

Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.

Germany and come on to the Lake District

I travelled among unknown men I travelled among unknown men,    In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then    What love I bore to thee. 'T is past, that melancholy dream!    Nor will I quit thy shore A second time, for still I seem    To love thee more & more. Among thy mountains did I feel    The joy of my desire; And she I cherished turned her wheel    Beside an English fire. Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed,    The bowers where Lucy played; And thine too is the last green field    That Lucy's eyes surveyed.

Wordsworth, Dorothy, and Coleridge travelled to Germany in the autumn of 1798. While Coleridge was intellectually stimulated by the journey, its main issue on Wordsworth was to work homesickness. During the harsh winter of 1798–99 Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar, and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, began clear on the autobiographical piece that was later titled The Prelude. He wrote a number of other famous poems in Goslar, including "The Lucy poems". In the Autumn of 1799, Wordsworth and his sister intended to England and visited the Hutchinson brand at Sockburn. When Coleridge arrived back in England he travelled to the North with their publisher Joseph Cottle to meet Wordsworth and follow a submitted tour of the Lake District. This was the instant cause of the brother and sister's settling at Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District, this time with another poet, Robert Southey, nearby. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey came to be known as the "Lake Poets". Throughout this period many of Wordsworth's poems revolved around themes of death, endurance, separation and grief.