Lyrical Ballads (1798)

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth

24 chapters2h 3mEnglish1798

About this book

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. (Additionally, though only the two writers are credited for the works, William's sister Dorothy Wordsworth's diary which held powerful descriptions of everyday surroundings influenced William's poetry immensely.) (Summary by Wikipedia)

Chapters (23)

1Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, The

1288

2Foster-Mother's Tale, The

257

3Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite

203

4Nightingale, The

359

5Female Vagrant, The

763

6Goody Blake and Harry Gill

284

7Lines written at a small distance from my House...

107

8Simon Lee, the old Huntsman

231

9Anecdote for Fathers

152

10We are Seven

151

11Lines written in early spring

12Thorn, The

548

13Last of the Flock, The

218

14Dungeon, The

15Mad Mother, The

226

16Idiot Boy, The

998

17Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening

131

18Expostulation and Reply

19The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject

20Old Man Travelling

21Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman, The

226

22Convict, The

157

23Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

447

Lyrical Ballads (1798)

About this book

Chapters (23)

Comments