This book is credited with helping to launch the Romantic Age of English literature. The two formed a close friendship and published their Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Whilst living in Dorset, Wordsworth met Samuel Coleridge. In 1795, after receiving a legacy, Wordsworth lived with his sister Dorothy first in Dorset and then at Alfoxden, Dorset. It was at this time that he wrote the poem ‘ It is a beauteous evening, calm and free’, following a seaside walk with his daughter. The war between the two countries prevented him from returning to France until 1802, at which point he had not seen Caroline for ten years. Shortly after Caroline was born, Wordsworth ran out of money and was forced to return to England. Whilst in France, Wordsworth met and fell in love with a young French woman, Annette Vallon, who subsequently bore him a daughter, Caroline. In 1790, Wordsworth spent a year in France following a walking tour with friends that visited France, the Alps and Italy. Wordsworth became an orphan at the age of thirteen when his father also passed away. John’s College in Cambridge where he made his debut as a writer when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. Dorothy was sent to live with relatives in Yorkshire and did not see her brother for nine years. Following the death of his mother when he was eight years old, Wordsworth was sent away to Hawkshead Grammar School. His sister, Dorothy, was also a poet and author and she and William were very close. William was the second of seven siblings born to Christopher, an attorney, and Anne Cookson Wordsworth. William Wordsworth was born on 17 th April 1770 in Cockermouth in the Lake District.
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