Editing William Wordsworth (section)

==Germany and move to the Lake District==

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'''''[[I travelled among unknown men]]'''''

I travelled among unknown men,
   In lands beyond the sea;
Nor, England! did I know till then
   What love I bore to thee.

'T is past, that melancholy dream!
   Nor will I quit thy shore
A second time, for still I seem
   To love thee more and more.

Among thy mountains did I feel
   The joy of my desire;
And she I cherished turned her wheel
   Beside an English fire.

Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed,
   The bowers where Lucy played;
And thine too is the last green field
   That Lucy's eyes surveyed.</poem>|source =<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kXd4bRr71a4C&dq=A+Library+of+Poetry+and+Song%3A+Being+Choice+Selections+from+the+Best+Poets+William+Wordsworth+england&pg=PA442 ''A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from The Best Poets. With An Introduction by William Cullen Bryant''], New York, J.B. Ford and Company, 1871, p. 442.</ref>}}

Wordsworth, Dorothy, and Coleridge travelled to Germany in the autumn of 1798. While Coleridge was intellectually stimulated by the journey, its main effect on Wordsworth was to produce homesickness.<ref name=webbio/> During the harsh winter of 1798–99, Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in [[Goslar]], and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, began work on the autobiographical piece that was later titled ''The Prelude''. He wrote several other famous poems in Goslar, including "[[The Lucy poems]]". In the Autumn of 1799, Wordsworth and his sister returned to England and visited the Hutchinson family at Sockburn. When Coleridge arrived back in England, he travelled to the North with their publisher, Joseph Cottle, to meet Wordsworth and undertake a proposed tour of the Lake District. This was the immediate cause of the brother and sister's settling at [[Dove Cottage]] in [[Grasmere (village)|Grasmere]] in the Lake District, this time with another poet, [[Robert Southey]], nearby. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey came to be known as the "[[Lake Poets]]".<ref>''[[Recollections of the Lake Poets]]''.</ref> Throughout this period, many of Wordsworth's poems revolved around themes of death, endurance, separation and grief.