red deep into his soul, changing him forever, to the point that his poems reflect these things. As a poetic spokesman he told of the voice of the common man, and their rights as human beings. “(Frank N. Magil et al, 2200)Returning to England, Wordsworth briefly found congeniality in a circle of other young freethinkers. To his content, they were radical philosophers, one of whom was William Godwin, the author of “Political Justice”. “However this was short lived, soon after William found himself settling in with his talented sister Dorothy Wordsworth. It was during this time, Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge who soon would change his life forever. Both men were intellectual free thinkers, and with mutual stimulation and constant companionship they published joint a small volume which would become a milestone in English literature.”( Frank N. Magill et al, 2200-2201) This was the Lyrical Ballads; and although at first it did not receive recognition, it would become sufficiently justified in its second printing in 1800. Lyrical Ballads consisted of pieces from Wordsworth’s “Tinern Abbey” and a group of shorter, ballad like compositions celebrating the common man.In 1803 during a trip to Scotland, the two found a conflict among them, to the result of this their friendship was broken, and too shattered to be ever mended. In 1802 Wordsworth ironically married his childhood friend Mary Hutchinson, she was an inspiration to his success. As Wordsworth grew older, he received many new and wonderful jobs, till his death in 1850 at Rydal Mount.Wordsworth had many works published during the span of his life span, the Lyrical Ballads was the first masterpiece published, after 1807 however he came out with several poems published separately. These were “Ode to Intimations of Immortality”, “Ode to duty”, and “Resolution and Independence”. His last set ...
