In 1793, Wordsworth published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches, poems about nature. He responded to the political and ethical ideas of William Godwin, and under their influence wrote Guilt and Sorrow, and a grim poetic drama, The Borders.
Living with his sister in a cottage in Dorsetshire until 1797, he formed a friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth even wrote a few lines which remain in the text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, but Coleridge’s more theoretic mind had a much more effective impact on Wordsworth’s. In 1798, in the Lyrical Bllads, Ancient Mariner appeared between the same covers with Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey.
