I. Friends at Cambridge with Robert Southey
A. Pantisocracy
B. Marriage to Sara Fricker,
Southey’s sister-in-law
II.
The Wordsworths settle near Nether Stowey
A. 1798: Lyrical Ballads
B. 1799: Falls in love with
Sara Hutchinson and settles
near the Wordsworths in the
Lake District (1800)
C. 1800-1801: Laudanum use
becomes addictive
D. 1802: “Dejection: An Ode”
III.
At Highgate under the care of Dr. Gillman (1816)