The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Performance'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. In 1798, the two poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly published The Lyrical Ballads a small volume of poems, and in the same year, they visited Germany. From October 1798, Wordsworth worked on the first drafts for his 'Lucy poems', which included 'Strange fits of passion have I known', 'She dwelt among the untrodden ways' and 'A slumber'. His friendship with Coleridge, which developed during this period, did a lot to stimulate his genius. During the autumn of 1798, Wordsworth travelled to Germany with his sister Dorothy and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Gradually his imaginative faculty, mixed up with moral ardor led him to the study of nature and the cultivation of poetry. These feelings persisted in him for a time after his return to England, but the Reign of Terror and the spirit of conquest, displayed by the French Revolution shook his faith in the Revolution and he devoted himself as a disciple of the philosopher William Godwin to the study of abstract, political systems. While in France, he was filled with enthusiasm for the Revolution and the love of France. William Wordsworth visited France twice, in 17, and his second visit continued up to 1792. He was educated at the little Grammar School of Hawkshead, Lancashire, and at Cambridge, and when he graduated, he had a little sense of his future vocation.

He was the second of five children to John and Anne Cookson Wordsworth.

Living away from the corruption of civilized life and under the influence of the picturesque countryside, Wordsworth learned faith in humanity and developed a love for the elemental things of life.

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