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Contains twenty-three poems by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). This title expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world. It includes the nightmarish vision of 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'.Read More

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    A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads" is edited with a note on the text by Michael Schmidt in "Penguin Classics". Published in 1798, "Lyrical Ballads" is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world. Coleridge's contribution includes the nightmarish vision of "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere", one of the works for which he became best known, as well as the fantastical conversational poem "The Foster-Mother's Tale" and the melancholic "The Nightingale".Wordsworth's "We are Seven" depicts a child's naive optimism in the face of the cruel mortality, while "Goody Blake and Harry Gill" and "Simon Lee" celebrate the simplicity and strength he perceived in country people, and "Tintern Abbey" explores the healing powers of nature. This "Penguin Classics" edition allows readers to recapture the full impact and power of "Lyrical Ballads". It also includes a note on the history of the text by Michael Schmidt. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) has been criticized as a political turn-coat, drug addict and plagiarist whose wrecked career left only a handful of magical early poems. But the shaping influence of his highly imaginative criticism is now generally accepted, and his position, along with that of William Wordsworth (1770-1850), as one of the two great progenitors of the English Romantic spirit is assured. A great innovator, Wordsworth permanently enlarged the range of English poetry both in subject matter and treatment. If you enjoyed the "Lyrical Ballads", you might like Wordsworth's "Selected Poems", also available in "Penguin Classics".

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    Published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world. Coleridge's contribution includes the nightmarish vision of The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, one of the works for which he became best known, as well as the fantastical conversational poem The Foster-Mother's Tale and the melancholic The Nightingale.Wordsworth's We are Seven depicts a child's naive optimism in the face of the cruel mortality, while Goody Blake and Harry Gill and Simon Lee celebrate the simplicity and strength he perceived in country people, and Tintern Abbey explores the healing powers of nature. Published as part of the Penguin Poetry First Editions series in which the greatest collections of poetry in English will be published in their original form. All texts have been completely reset and some minor changes made to punctuation.

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    Lyrical Ballads : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140424621 : 0140424628 : 30 Jan 2007 : A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility'.

  • Blackwell

    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...

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth

  • 0140424628
  • 9780140424621
  • Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth
  • 31 August 2006
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 128
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