Lyrical BalladsPublished in 1798, Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world. Coleridge's contribution includes the nightmarish vision of 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere', one of the works for which he became best known, as well as the fantastical conversational poem 'The Foster-Mother's Tale' and the melancholic 'The Nightingale'. Wordsworth's 'We are Seven' depicts a child's naïve optimism in the face of the cruel mortality, while 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' and 'Simon Lee' celebrate the simplicity and strength he perceived in country people, and 'Tintern Abbey' explores the healing powers of nature. |
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... Morning Chronicle, and in 1795 he wrote 'The Eolian Harp' for Sara Fricker, whom he married in the same year, although the marriage was an unhappy one. He first met Dorothy and William Wordsworth in 1797 and a close association ...
... d the sultry main Like morning frosts yspread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt always A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watch'd the water-snakes: They mov'd in tracks of shining.
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Contents
The FosterMothers Tale | |
The Nightingale a Conversational Poem | |
The Female Vagrant | |
Goody Blake and Harry Gill | |
Lines written at a small distance from my House and sent by | |
Anecdote for Fathers | |
Lines written in Early Spring | |
The Last of the Flock | |
The Mad Mother | |
Lines written near Richmond upon the Thames at Evening | |
The Tables Turned an Evening Scene on the same subject | |
The Convict | |