Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth

• Publisher: SAGA Egmont
• Year: 2022
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9788728200025
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson; Merry and Pippin; Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy...great duos often help to make great literature. So when two soon-to-be luminaries of the English Romantic movement came together to produce a book of their poems, the result was inevitable. 'Lyrical Ballads' by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a slow burner for readers, but grew to be lauded as a landmark piece of work, taking English writing in a new direction.

Wordsworth does most of the heavy lifting by contributing the majority of the poems, but Coleridge's efforts include the famous 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. The pair aimed to prick the bubble of what they felt was a snobbish approach to 18th century poetry. In 'Lyrical Ballads', they use everyday language, add the voices of the poor and focus on the original state of nature. The result is an accessible, original collection that remains fresh to this day.

Table of contents

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• THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE, IN SEVEN PARTS.
• THE FOSTER-MOTHER’S TALE, A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.
• LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE WHICH STANDS NEAR THE LAKE OF ESTHWAITE, ON A DESOLATE PART OF THE SHORE, YET COMMANDING A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT.
• THE NIGHTINGALE;
• THE FEMALE VAGRANT.
• GOODY BLAKE, AND HARRY GILL, A TRUE STORY.
• LINES WRITTEN AT A SMALL DISTANCE FROM MY HOUSE, AND SENT BY MY LITTLE BOY TO THE PERSON TO WHOM THEY ARE ADDRESSED.
• SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, WITH AN INCIDENT IN WHICH HE WAS CONCERNED.
• ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS SHEWING HOW THE ART OF LYING MAY BE TAUGHT.
• WE ARE SEVEN.
• LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
• THE THORN.
• THE LAST OF THE FLOCK.
• THE DUNGEON.
• THE MAD MOTHER.
• THE IDIOT BOY.
• LINES WRITTEN NEAR RICHMOND, UPON THE THAMES, AT EVENING.
• EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY.
• THE TABLES TURNED; AN EVENING SCENE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
• OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY AND DECAY, A SKETCH.
• THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN
• THE CONVICT.
• LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 1798.
• About Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems
• Notes