Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth

• Publisher: Caelwick Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781809788757
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge . A hugely influential work, Lyrical Ballads is generally acknowledged to have started the Romantic movement in English literature—a period marked by a departure from the stiff and unapproachable poetry of earlier times, and by a focus on readable, relatable verse written in everyday language. Many of Wordsworth's poems focus on the natural world and the down-to-earth people of the country, another far departure from the rational and dry literature of old. Romanticism was one of the largest sea changes in modern English literature, and Lyrical Ballads was its catalyst. This ebook edition is based on the 1805 edition of Lyrical Ballads , and features the famous poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , "Tintern Abbey," "Expostulation and Reply," "Lucy Gray," and many others. William Wordsworth (died 1850) was one of the most distinguished authors of the Victorian age. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. Poetry has always been the most concentrated and powerful form of literary expression. The verse collected in Lyrical Ballads represents a high point of the poetic tradition, offering language of beauty and precision that speaks to the deepest levels of human experience.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Chapitre 1
• Chapitre 2
• Expostulation and Reply
• The Tables Turned
• Animal Tranquillity and Decay
• Goody Blake and Harry Gill
• The Last of the Flock
• Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree, Which Stands Near the Lake of Estwaithe, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, Yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect
• The Foster-Mother’s Tale
• The Thorn
• We Are Seven
• Anecdote for Fathers
• Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House, and Sent by My Little Boy to the Person to Whom They Are Addressed
• The Female Vagrant
• Lines Written in Early Spring
• Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
• The Nightingale
• The Idiot Boy
• Love
• The Mad Mother
• The Ancient Mariner
• Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour
• Hart-Leap Well
• The Brothers
• Ellen Irwin
• The Waterfall and the Eglantine
• The Oak and the Broom
• The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
• Lucy Gray
• The Idle Shepherd-Boys
• Poor Susan
• Inscription
• Lines Written with a Pencil Upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (An Out-House) on the Island at Grasmere
• To a Sexton
• Andrew Jones
• Ruth
• Lines Written with a Slate-Pencil, Upon a Stone, the Largest of a Heap Lying Near a Deserted Quarry, Upon One of the Islands at Rydale
• The Two April Mornings
• The Fountain
• Nutting
• Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
• The Pet-Lamb
• Written in Germany, on One of the Coldest Days of the Century
• The Childless Father
• The Old Cumberland Beggar
• Rural Architecture
• A Poet’s Epitaph
• A Fragment
• Poems on the Naming of Places
• Lines Written When Sailing in a Boat at Evening
• Remembrance of Collins
• The Two Thieves
• Song for the Wandering Jew
• Michael
• Appendix