The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems. One of Wordsworth’s most famous poems, “Tintern Abbey”, was published in this collection, along with Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. The volume gave neither Wordsworth’s nor Coleridge’s name as author.Together Wordsworth and Coleridge (with insights from Dorothy) produced Lyrical Ballads (1798), an important work in the English Romantic movement.In 1795 he received a legacy of £900 from Raisley Calvert and became able to pursue a career as a poet. The year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by Wordsworth, in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.In particular, it is possible that the “Lucy” poems allowed Wordsworth to vent his frustration with his sister, and that they contain the subconscious desire for his sister to die. These poems express the frustration and anxiety that Wordsworth was feeling.

Afterwards Wordsworth continued to write even without the support of Coleridge’s company, and from October 1798 to February 1799 Wordsworth began writing the “Matthew” poems along with the “Lucy” poems and other poems. It was under Coleridge’s support that Wordsworth was encouraged to write poetry intended to rival Milton.Hawkshead School had a strong relationship with St.John’s College at Cambridge University and, in October 1787, Wordsworth became an undergraduate there.Besides the local surroundings, Wordsworth was educated at the Hawkshead Grammar School, which had a reputation for scholarship and preparation for University entrance.His discontent with his familial situation provoked Wordsworth to spend his time wandering away from his home, an action Wordsworth relates as uniting a childish imagination with both nature and mankind in The Prelude.Wordsworth was taught both the Bible and the Spectator, but little else. At Penrith, Wordsworth was sent to a school for the children of upper-class families.After the death of his mother in 1778, his father was inconsolable and sent his children away to be raised by their relatives. In March 1778, Ann died of an illness, possibly pneumonia, at Penrith.Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, the second of five children.Wordsworth’s father, although rarely present, did teach him poetry, including that of Milton, Shakespeare, and Spenser, in addition to allowing his son to rely on his father’s library.John, at the age of 26, married Ann, 18, in 1766.William’s mother died when he was 7 years old and he became an orphan at the age of 13 years.Wordsworth’s parents were John Wordsworth, a legal agent for James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and Collector of Customs at Whitehaven, and his wife, Ann Cookson.

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