In English literature the most important Romantic poets were Wordsworth and Coleridge, called the Lake Poets, and the younger generation poets (Keats, Shelley and Byron). For the Romantics ...

The Lyrical Ballads were planned by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1797, and were published in 1798, with four poems by Coleridge and ninenteen by Wordsworth. The two poets conceived this work as an ...

Wordsworth’s first, and finest, readers – Dorothy, his sister; Thomas De Quincey, his fan; Coleridge, his collaborator; and Mary, his wife – were all fatherless when they threw in their lot with him, ...

The ‘Great Road’ across the ridge inspired Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’; the Bicknoller Post, an ancient waymark, led Wordsworth to write his most notorious lines ... Hazlitt’s ...

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are considered two of the most important poets of the first English Romantic period. They worked together to publish the collection "Lyrical Ballads ...

Two years later they moved again, this time to Somerset, to live near the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was an admirer of Wordsworth's work. They collaborated on 'Lyrical Ballads', published ...

Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion illustrated by select passages from our elder divines, especially from Archbishop ...

In 1812, while living in Grasmere, two of their children—Catherine and John—died. Equally important in the poetic life of Wordsworth was his 1795 meeting with the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was ...

The country house - which appears on Historic England's at-risk register - is where Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge created their joint masterpiece Lyrical Ballads. It will be renovated and ...