In 1802, Wordsworth married a family friend, Mary Hutchinson. William who died in 1850, had a passionate love for the Lake District(pictured) that inspired the newly-formed National Trust This prompted Wordsworth’s most famous poem, so familiar that it has almost become a cliché. One spring day, Dorothy wrote in her notebook that they had passed a huge bank of daffodils. They walked constantly, and fragments of Dorothy’s beautifully descriptive nature notes were often echoed in her brother’s poems.
Grasmere was where the siblings felt happiest and was a never-ending source of inspiration. Wordsworth also began work on one of his seminal poems, Tintern Abbey.Ī year later, William and Dorothy settled in Grasmere in the Lake District, at the small house which would later be known as Dove Cottage.Īlthough his work still attracted mocking reviews and sold very little - fortunately, he had inherited money from his father - Wordsworth’s fame, and that of the Romantic movement of which he was a part, was steadily growing. The two poets sparked ideas off each other and in 1798 they collaborated on Lyrical Ballads, which included Coleridge’s Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.
Pictured: William as portrayed by Richard Carruthers William collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads, including Coleridge’s Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, in Cumberland, in 1770 and had a difficult childhood: his mother died when he was seven and his father when he was 13. They both stopped writing their best poetry when they fell out with one another,’ Jonathan Bate writes. ‘Wordsworth and Coleridge both began writing their best poetry when they met each other. Never published during his lifetime, it became known as The Prelude and is considered his masterpiece.Īlthough the poem was dedicated to Coleridge, and the two men patched up their relationship, things were never quite the same between them.Īnd, strangely, their poetry suffered as well. It must have been quite a Christmas, because apart from all this domestic drama, Wordsworth spent every night reading aloud to Coleridge and his family from the long autobiographical poem he had been working on for two years. Jonathan Bate explores the life of poet William Wordsworth, who was born in 1770, in a fascinating new biography.
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