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Wordsworth & Coleridge Lyrical Ballads (Reprinted with Corrections 1996)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #458614 in Books
- Published on: 1996
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 179 pages
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About the Author
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with this publication.
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A seminal work in English literature
This collaboration between Wordsworth and Coleridge signaled the beginning of Romanticism in English poetry and announced all the important themes and techniques of the movement: the healing power of nature and art, the importance of "ordinary" man and woman, the pervasiveness of the supernatural in everday life, etc. The book also broke old rules by incorporating prosaic, common language in the poems.
Sometimes the poems are mawkish and strain for effect, but for the most part they are powerful and moving. Most famous of Coleridge's contributions, of course, is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", with its admonition to respect ALL of God's creation. But even lovelier is "The Nightingale", a paen to the restorative power of art.
Wordsworth's most famous contribution is "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", but he also submits several excellent narrative poems with supernatural themes.
The great groundbreaking work of English Romantic poetry
This volume contains one of the greatest collaborations in literary history. Coleridge wrote of the supernatural and distant, and Wordsworth of the everyday and near in Nature. Coleridge wrote his poetic masterwork ,
