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Lyrical Ballads 1798: The Foundational 1798 Collection of English Romantic Poetry
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617206443
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Feb 10 2012
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lyrical Ballads 1798 is one of the decisive books in English Romantic poetry, co-written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a volume that changed the course of modern literature. First published anonymously in 1798, the collection includes Wordsworth's poems of rural life, feeling, memory, suffering, childhood, and ordinary speech, alongside Coleridge's great supernatural ballad The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere. Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge rejected much of the artificial diction of eighteenth-century verse and turned instead toward common life, inward experience, nature, imagination, and the emotional truth of human encounter.
This 1798 edition is especially important because it presents Lyrical Ballads before Wordsworth's later prefaces and revisions fixed the book's place as a manifesto of Romantic poetics. The volume's power lies in its experiment: rustic subjects treated seriously, plain language elevated by intensity, psychological states rendered through landscape, and poetry made answerable to feeling, imagination, and moral perception rather than convention. For readers of Romantic poetry, English literature, Wordsworth, Coleridge, nature poetry, supernatural poetry, literary history, and the origins of modern lyric poetry, Lyrical Ballads 1798 remains a foundational work.
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