Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)
by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems" is a compilation of their poetry. The poem is generally regarded as having started a new period in the history of poetry and is regarded as a cornerstone of the Romantic Movement in English literature. The book stood out for its creative use of common language as well as its emphasis on the lives and experiences of everyday people. It signaled a departure from the extremely artificial and polished vocabulary of earlier literary traditions and adopted a more casual, conversational tone. The writers of the...
Chapters (60)
- LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS.
- LONDON PRINTED FOR J. & A. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-STREET. 1798
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- CONTENTS.
- THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE, IN SEVEN PARTS.
- ARGUMENT.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- THE FOSTER-MOTHER’S TALE, A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.
- LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE WHICH STANDS NEAR THE LAKE OF ESTHWAITE, ON A DESOLATE PART OF THE SHORE, YET COMMANDING A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT.
- THE NIGHTINGALE;
- A CONVERSATIONAL POEM, WRITTEN IN APRIL, 1798.
- THE FEMALE VAGRANT.
- GOODY BLAKE, AND HARRY GILL, A TRUE STORY.
- LINES WRITTEN AT A SMALL DISTANCE FROM MY HOUSE, AND SENT BY MY LITTLE BOY TO THE PERSON TO WHOM THEY ARE ADDRESSED.
- SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, WITH AN INCIDENT IN WHICH HE WAS CONCERNED.
- ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS SHEWING HOW THE ART OF LYING MAY BE TAUGHT.
- WE ARE SEVEN.
- LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
- THE THORN.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- THE LAST OF THE FLOCK.
- THE DUNGEON.
- THE MAD MOTHER.
- THE IDIOT BOY.
- LINES WRITTEN NEAR RICHMOND, UPON THE THAMES, AT EVENING.
- EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY.
- THE TABLES TURNED; AN EVENING SCENE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
- OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY AND DECAY, A SKETCH.
- THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN
- THE CONVICT.
- LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 1798.
- END.
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