WILLIAM WORDSWORTH He was born in the English Lake District , a wild region near the Scottish border. In 1790 he visited France so he had a contact with the revolution which gave him the enthusiasm for the democratic ideals : they could Lead to a new and right social order. He lived in France from 1791 to 1793, when the Reign of terror and the war between England and France brought him to a nervous breakdown. In 1795 he lived with his sister Dorothy who was a supporter of his poetry : in fact she copied his poems and recorded their life into her Journals . They provided an insight into the daily life which generated William's poems. This year he also met Coleridge : their friendship was important to the development of English Romantic poetry, they also produced the Lyrical Ballads (1798) , a collection of poems. The 1800 edition also contained Wordsworth' Preface : The Manifesto of English Romanticism. In 1799 he and his sister moved to Lake District. His reputation as a poet grew in 1843 when he was named Poet Laureate : in fact in the last years of his life he was marked by a conservatism . He died in 1850. THE MANIFESTO OF ENGLISH ROMANTICISM Poetry was a solitary act , originat