iend. Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy then went to live in Racetown,@Dorsetshire. Wordsworth was always very close to his sister, and she helped to@encourage him when his writings were not doing very well. Wordsworth would be@deeply saddened by her mental breakdown in later years. Wordsworth met fellow poet@Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and he and his sister moved to Alfoxden, Somersetshire, near@Coleridgefs home in Nether Stowey. The poets became close friends, and collaborated@on a book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth wrote almost all of the poems@in the book.Lyrical Ballads is considered to mark the start of the romantic movement in@English poetry. Lyrical Ballads represented a revolt against the classicism of@contemporary English poetry, and was therefore greeted with hostility by most of the@critics of that time ( Encarta ).In 1798 and 1799, Wordsworth and his sister accompanied Coleridge to Germany. It was here that wrote some of his finest lyrical verses, and began The Prelude. The@Prelude, an account of Wordsworthfs own development, was completed in 1805, and@published after his death in 1850.Wordsworth and his sister returned to England in 1799, and made their home at@Dove Cottage in Grasmere, the most beautiful spot in the English Lake District . Another@poet, Robert Southey, and Coleridge lived nearby. The three men became known as the@Lake Poets. For the second edition of Ballads, which was published in 1801, Wordsworth@wrote a gPrefaceh to defend his theory of poetry. He said that poetry originates from@emotion, and that form and intellectual approach only served to drain poetry of that@emotion. This idea only served to increase hostility toward Wordsworth. However, he@was not discouraged, and continued to write poetry in his emotional style.@In 1802, Wordsworth married childhood friend Mary Hutchinson. In 1813 he@moved his family, along with his sister, to Rydal Mount, a few miles from Dove Cottag...
