In 1802 he married Mary Hutchinson, and finally fixed his home in the lakes, though it was not till several years afterwards (1813) that he took up his abode in the place henceforth connected with his name, Rydal Mount. When be returned to England, he settled, with his sister, near Grasmere, meaning to give himself to poetical composition as the business of his life, and in 1800 published the 2nd volume of the Lyrical Ballads. The 2 friends went to Germany at the end of 1798, and Wordsworth, with his sister, spent the winter at Goslar. In 1793 he published a volume of poems, and in 1798 appeared, at Bristol, the 1st volume of the Lyrical Ballads, intended to be a joint work of Coleridge and Wordsworth, but to which Coleridge only contributed The Ancient Mariner, and 2 or 3 other pieces.
The Reign of Terror drove him home he came to London he was in Dorsetshire (1796), then at Alfoxden in the Somersetshire Quantocks, where he saw much of S.T.
Like many of his generation he was filled with enthusiasm for the French Revolution, and he resided for more than a year in France. But he made no mark at the university, and in January 1791 he took his degree and left. He went to school in the neighborhood, at Hawkshead, and his school days were days of much liberty, both in playing and reading. Both father and mother died in his boyhood his mother earkuest, his father when he was 14. His father was agent to Lord Lowther, and came of an old north country stock. Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth, a town on the edge of the Cumberland highlands.
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