years after the poet had written great poems, innocently asked him if he had ever written anything except the Guide to the Lakes. Even Byron, later one of the extreme figures in the revolt, satirized Wordsworth in an early poem as "The mild apostate from poetic rule." The poet said that for years the income from his poetry was eived f head, ab head, en bridge, ing to sp autobiog GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT HAWKSHEAD. not sufficient to keep him in shoestrings. His ultimate artistic triumph is made evident in many ways, not the least being his appointment as poet laureate in his seventy-third year. This honor came solely in recognition of his achievement, and with the understanding that the services usually belonging to the position would not be expected of him. Early Life and Education. Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, county of Cumberland, the northwest corner a very h be at al was gra Influe he spen over the The excesses of the Revolution lessened his enthusiasm; and for some years after his return to England he suffered much from the unsettling of his faith in mankind. With Sister and Friend. In 1795 he and his beloved and devoted sister Dorothy settled in Dorsetshire, south WORDSWORTH AT THE AGE OF FORTY- After a crayon sketch by Haydon. west England, pre- frequently referred to in other poems. "Lyrical Ballads." Before taking up their residence in the Lake District, the two poets had put out the epoch-marking book usually named as the beginning of the "Romantic Triumph." Lyrical Ballads may well have taken the critics wares tention strange, the whol |