Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1802
Author: William Wordsworth
Wordsworth and Coleridge’s joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers ever since, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the ‘Lucy’ poems, Lines written a few miles abo….Read More
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