...om a close friend. Thereupon he and his sister, Dorothy ordsorth, ent to live in Racedon, Dorsetshire. The to had alays enjoyed a armly sympathetic relationship, and ordsorth relied greatly on Dorothy, his devoted confidante, for encouragement in his literary endeavors. Her mental breakdon in later years as to cause him great sorro, as did the death of his brother John. illiam had met the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an enthusiastic admirer of his early poetic efforts, and in 1797 he and Dorothy moved to Alfoxden, Somersetshire, near Coleridges home in Nether Stoey. The move marked the beginning of a close and enduring friendship beteen the poets. In the ensuing period they collaborated on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798. This ork is generally taken to mark the beginning of the romantic movement in English poetry. ordsorth rote almost all the poems in the volume, including the memorable Tintern Abbey Coleridge contributed the famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Representing a revolt against the artificial classicism of contemporary English verse, Lyrical Ballads as greeted ith hostility by most leading critics of the day. In defense of his unconventional theory of poetry, ordsorth rote a Preface to the second edition of Ballads, hich appeared in 1800 actual date of publication, 1801. His premise as that the source of poetic truth is the direct experience of the senses. Poetry, he asserted, originates from emotion recollected in tranquillity. Rejecting the contemporary emphasis on form and an intellectual approach that drained poetic riting of strong emotion, he maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people ere the ra material of hich poetry could and should be made. Far from conciliating the critics, the Preface served only to increase their hostility. ordsorth, hoever, as not discouraged, continuing to rite poetry that graphically illustrated his principles. Before the publication of the Preface, ordsorth and his sister had accompanied Coleridge to Germany in 1798 and 1799. There ordsorth rote several of his finest lyrical verses, the Lucy poems, and began The Prelude. This introspective account of his on development as completed in 1805 and, after substantial revision, published posthumously in 1850. Many critics rank it as ordsorths greatest ork.Returning to England, illiam and his sister settled in 1799 at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, estmorland, the loveliest spot in the English Lake District. The poet Robert Southey as ell as Coleridge lived nearby, and the three men became knon as the Lake Poets. In 1802 ordsorth married Mary Hutchinson, a childhood friend, ho is portrayed in the charming lyric She as a Phantom of Delight. In 1807Poems in To Volumes as published. The ork contains much of ordsorths finest verse, notably the superb Ode Intimations of Immortality, the autobiographical narrative Resolution and Independence, and many of his ell-knon sonnets. In 1813 ordsorth obtained a sinecure as distributor of stamps for estmorland at a salary of 400 a year. In the same year he and his family and sister moved to Rydal Mount, a fe kilometers from Dove Cottage, and there the poet spent the remainder of his life, except for periodic travels. ordsorths political and intellectual sympathies underent a transformation after 1800. By 1810 his viepoint as staunchly conservative. He as disillusioned by the course of events in France culminating in the rise of Napoleon his circle of friends, including the Scottish author Sir alter Scott, also influenced him in the direction of orthodoxy. As he advanced in age, ordsorths poetic vision and inspiration dulled his later, more rhetorical, moralistic poems cannot be compared to the lyrics of his youth, although a number of them are illumined by the spark of his former greatness. Beteen 1814 and 1822 his publications included The Excursion 1814, a continuation of The Prelude but lacking the poer and beauty of that ork The hite Doe of Rylstone 1815 Peter Bell 1819 and Ecclesiastical Sonnets 1822. Yarro Revisited and Other Poems appeared in 1835, but after that ordsorth rote little more. Among his other poetic orks are The Borderers A Tragedy 1796 published 1842, Michael 1800, The Recluse 1800 published 1888, Laodamia 1815, and Memorials of a Tour on the Continent 1822. ordsorth also rote the prose orks Convention of Cintra 1809 and A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England 1810 reprinted ith additions, 1822. Much of ordsorths easy flo of conversational blank verse has true lyrical poer and grace, and his finest ork is permeated by a sense of the human relationship to external nature that is religious in its scope and intensity. To ordsorth, God as everyhere manifest in the harmony of nature, and he felt deeply the kinship beteen nature and the soul of humankind. The tide of critical opinion turned in his favor after 1820, and ordsorth lived to see his ork universally praised. In 1842 he as aarded a government pension, and in the folloing year he succeeded Southey as poet laureate. ordsorth died at Rydal Mount, April 23, 1850, and as buried in the Grasmere churchyard.S,klnuNOQu0PaO6BCJsaJmHphsH6BCJsaJphB
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