J. G. Lockhart, Scott's son-in-law, is the author of the most complete biography. A good shorter life is that by R. H. Hutton in the English Men of Letters Series. LOCHINVAR (Page 19) Published first in _Marmion_ (1808) as "Lady Heron's Song." [98] 2. =Border=; the country on the border between England and Scotland, a region of warfare and strife for many centuries. [99] 8. The =Esk= River is in southwest Scotland, and flows into Solway Firth. [100] 32. =Galliard=; a lively dance of the period. [101] 41. =Scaur=; a steep bank of rock. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH William Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth on the borders of the beautiful English lake country. During a boyhood spent largely out of doors, rowing, walking, and skating, he imbibed a love for nature which had a broader manifestation in his later life and poetry. After a short period at Hawkshead School, he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took a degree in 1791. He then resided for a time in France; but was driven from there in 1793 by the Reign of Terror, and passed a few years in a rather idle way in the vicinity of London. His real poetic awakening came in 1797, when he and Coleridge lived near each other at Alfoxden among the Quantock Hills in Somerset. Here, in 1798, the two young men published _Lyrical Ballads_, a collection of poems written for the most part by Wordsworth, though Coleridge contributed _The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_ and a few others. This book, especially in its treatment of nature, was a reaction against the stilted formalism which had characterized much of the English poetry of the eighteenth century, and as such it was the real stimulus for the revival of Romanticism which followed its appearance. After a year in Germany with his sister Dorothy, Wordsworth returned to the lake region now associated with his name, living at Grasmere until 1813, and after that at Rydal Mount. He married his cousin, Mary Hutchinson, in 1802. Among his later important works were _The Prelude_ (1805), _The Excursion_ (1814), and many shorter poems and sonnets. He was made poet-laureate in 1843, and died seven years after in 1850. Wordsworth, though a radical in his youth, became more conservative in later years. He was a man of quiet tastes, and deliberately chose to live where he could be among simple people. As a poet, he was first of all an interpreter of nature, endowed with extraordinary keenness of observation and delighting in all her phases. In humanity, too, he had a sympathetic interest, especially in the everyday emotions and occupations of the plain men and women around him. And influencing his attitude toward both nature and humanity was a sort of religious mysticism which conceived the spirit of God as permeating all things, flowers and trees as well as the human heart. MICHAEL (Page 21)