Grasmere is in northwestern England's Lake District,between Morecambe Bay on the southand Solway Firth on the north. Among its attractions are England's highest mountain,Scafell 6. Pike,and Esthwaite Lake and other picturesque meres radiating outward,like the points of a star,from the town of Grasmere. The Lake District was the haunt of not only Wordsworth but also poets Robert Southey Samuel TaylorColeridge Thomas De Quincey The year 1797 marked the beginning of Wordsworth's long and mutually enriching friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge,the first fruit of which was their joint publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798). Most of his poems in this collection centered on the simple yet deeply human feelings ofordinary people,phrased in their own language. 10 His views on this new kind of poetry were more fully described in the important "Preface"that he wrote for the second edition(1800). Lyrical Ballads Grasmere is in northwestern England’s Lake District, between Morecambe Bay on the south and Solway Firth on the north. Among its attractions are England’s highest mountain, Scafell Pike, and Esthwaite Lake and other picturesque meres radiating outward, like the points of a star, from the town of Grasmere. The Lake District was the haunt of not only Wordsworth but also poets Robert Southey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas De Quincey The year 1797 marked the beginning of Wordsworth's long and mutually enriching friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the first fruit of which was their joint publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798). Most of his poems in this collection centered on the simple yet deeply human feelings of ordinary people, phrased in their own language. His views on this new kind of poetry were more fully described in the important “Preface” that he wrote for the second edition (1800). Lyrical Ballads 10’ 10’