FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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They were siblings.
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They were roommates.
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They were lovers.
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They were literary nemeses.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -While living with Dorothy at Alfoxden House, Wordsworth became friends with a fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They formed a partnership that would change both poets’ lives and alter the course of English poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -While Wordsworth thinks of nature as an essential part of human life, especially in childhood, Coleridge associates the experience in nature as something special, as the ideal in the real, as part of the imagination. The different childhood of these two poets underlie this attitude.
Detailed explanation-4: -Romantic writers as it can be seen in the poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge finds happiness in isolating themselves from this world to the other world of nature full of peace, joy, happiness, health, love and sympathy. To them, the only source of comfort is a nature.