Lyrical Ballads

<p><strong><u>Lyrical Ballads</u></strong> is a collection of poems by <strong><u>William Wordsworth</u></strong> and his friend and contemporary <strong><u>Samuel Taylor</u></strong> Coleridge. A hugely influential work <strong><u>Lyrical Ballads</u></strong> 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 <strong><u>Lyrical Ballads</u></strong> was its catalyst.This ebook edition is based on the <strong>1805</strong> edition of <strong><u>Lyrical Ballads</u></strong> and features the famous poems <strong><u>The Rime</u></strong> of the Ancient Mariner Tintern Abbey Expostulation and Reply <strong>Lucy Gray</strong> and many others.</p>