Lyrical Ballads

by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William 1770-1850 Wordsworth

1798Poésie anglaiseEnglish poetryEnglish poetry (collections), 18th centuryEnglish poetry (collections), 19th centuryWordsworth, william, 1770-1850

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About this book

Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry. Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of "Lyrical Ballads" allows modern readers to recapture the book's original impact. In these poems including Wordsworth's Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey and Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, the two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes.

Themes & subjects

Poésie anglaiseEnglish poetryEnglish poetry (collections), 18th centuryEnglish poetry (collections), 19th centuryWordsworth, william, 1770-1850Coleridge, samuel taylor, 1772-1834

First published 1798

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19e siècle18e siècle19th century18th century

About the authors

William Wordsworth

7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism. ([Source][1].) [1]:h…