Lyrical Ballads: Penguin Pocket Poets (Penguin Clothbound Poetry) [Hardcover] Wordsworth William and Coleridge Samuel Taylor

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge the collection broke away from traditional poetic form. Of the twenty-three poems Wordsworth penned works such as Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey and The Idiot Boy that use colloquial speech and take the everyday as their theme. The collection also includes Coleridges greatest poem The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere a supernatural tale of a sailors voyage. About the Author Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet philosopher and literary critic. Born in Ottery St Mary Coleridge was educated at Christs Hospital School London where he began his friendship with Charles Lamb and began writing his first sonnets. With his friend William Wordsworth Coleridge founded the Romantic Movement and became a member of the Lake Poets. In 1798 they co-wrote Lyrical Ballads a landmark collection of poems that marked the beginning of Romanticism in English literature. The collection includes his greatest poem The Rime of the Ancient Marnier.