Lyrical Ballads
Twenty-three pieces printed anonymously at Bristol in 1798 put an old huntsman who cannot get his axe through a tree root, a child who insists her dead brother and sister still make seven, and a mother who sends her idiot boy out on a pony at midnight for the doctor beside four poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, of which The Rime of the Ancient Mariner opens the book. The 1800 edition added a preface arguing that verse should be built from a selection of the real language of men in humble and rustic life, and that its proper subject is ordinary feeling recollected in tranquillity. The founding document of English Romanticism, and the argument about poetic diction every later manifesto is still answering.
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- ↓ Tintern Abbey
- ↓ Michael
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