ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The two became immediate friends. Upon meeting Wordsworth, Coleridge decided to move to Grasmere to be in close proximity to his fellow poet. During this time, Wordsworth and Coleridge greatly influenced, criticized and inspired eachother’s poetry.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth was brother to Dorothy, who adored Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was married to Sara, who was the sister-in-law of the future poet laureate Robert Southey. Together with a second Sara, with whom Coleridge was besotted, the Wordsworths established a fluid commune in the Lake District.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lyrical Ballads, collection of poems, first published in 1798 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, the appearance of which is often designated by scholars as a signal of the beginning of English Romanticism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Part of their gradual falling-out stemmed from Wordsworth’s disciplined stability and the growing damage inflicted by the growing instability and wildness of the opium-addicted Coleridge.

Detailed explanation-5: -The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.