Lyrical Ballads



         


Lyrical Ballads, 1798, was the flame that lit the English Romantic movement, its spark being that of the somewhat earlier William Blake.

The book was a joint venture between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Both set out to overturn the priggish, learned and highly sculpted forms of eighteenth century English poetry.

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