In May 1798, William Hazlitt walked from London to Coleridge's house in Nether Stowey, Somerset. Hazlitt and Coleridge immediately ste off to visit the Wordsworths at Alfoxton. Hazlitt describes his time in the Quantocks in his famous essay 'My First Acquaintance with the Poets (1823). Whilst at Alfoxton, Hazlitt examined and admired the manuscripts for poems of Lyrical Ballads, and listened as Wordsworth and Coleridge gave readings in the grounds of Alfoxton. He also describes conversations he has with the two about poetry and its composition: 'Coleridge has told me that he himself liked to compose in walking over uneven ground, or breaking through the straggling branches of a copse-wood; whereas Wordsworth always wrote (if he could) walking up and down a straight gravel walk, or in some spot where the continuity of his verse met with no collateral interruption (pp. 105-6). During the visit, the group walked around the surrounding landscape, from Alfoxton and Stowey to Dunster, Minehead and on to Linton.