William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth, born in 1770 and orphaned early, stayed in France during the Revolution and settled in 1799 in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy; he ended as Poet Laureate and died in 1850. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born in 1772, the son of a clergyman, a reader of the German philosophers and dependent on opium, was his partner for this collection; he died in 1834 after eighteen years spent at Highgate with the surgeon who treated him.

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• PoetryLyrical BalladsWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798LiteraturePublic domain