William published a two-volume set of his poetry in 1807, and once more it was met by public indifference and scathing reviews (by Lord Byron among others). Mary, William, and his sister Dorothy lived together in the Lake District village of Grasmere. In 1802 Wordsworth received money owed to his father, and he was financially secure enough to marry Mary Hutchinson, an old childhood friend. Later, Coleridge's drug addiction and erratic behavior put an end to their friendship. They collaborated on a volume of Romantic verse called Lyrical Ballads (1798), which was notable for its attempt to use ordinary language in a poetic fashion. However, friends arranged for money to allow him to concentrate on his writing.Īt this time Wordsworth met poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the two became firm friends. He published two poems, Descriptive Sketches, and An Evening Walk, which were not well received. William was sent to Cambridge, and upon graduation he travelled in Europe for a time, but when the money ran out Wordsworth returned home. Wordsworth's father did not survive his wife by long, and when he died in 1783 the Wordsworth children found themselves living with two uncles who were not best pleased to receive them.
When Wordsworth's mother Anne died in 1778, young William was sent to attend grammar school away from home. His father, John, was a lawyer, and he encouraged his five children to pursue learning. William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland.
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