Lyrical Ballads

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Lyrical Ballads is a landmark 1798 poetry collection by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that helped launch the English Romantic movement with its focus on nature, emotion, and ordinary life.

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instanceOf book
book edition
literary preface
literary work
poem
poem
poetry collection
aimedTo use language of ordinary people
author Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
containsPoem Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
contributedTo rise of English Romantic movement
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception initially mixed reviews
editor William Wordsworth
firstEditionPlaceOfPublication Bristol
firstEditionPublisher Joseph Cottle
genre poetry
hasEdition Lyrical Ballads self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800 edition)
hasForm ballad
lyric poetry
hasPreface Preface to Lyrical Ballads
hasSubject childhood and memory
psychological states
supernatural elements
influenced 19th-century English poetry
Romantic poets
innovation rejection of neoclassical poetic diction
language English
laterRecognition landmark of English literature
literaryMovement Romanticism
literaryPeriod late 18th century
notableFor focus on emotion
focus on nature
focus on ordinary life
statement of Romantic poetic theory
originalPublicationDate 1798
publicationDate 1800
1800
publisher Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
surface form: Longman
targetAudience general reading public
thematicFocus imagination
relationship between man and nature
rural life

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William Wordsworth notableWork Lyrical Ballads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge notableWork Lyrical Ballads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge coAuthorOf Lyrical Ballads
Lake Poets associatedWithWork Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads hasEdition Lyrical Ballads self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800 edition)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey includedIn Lyrical Ballads
this entity surface form: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems
Biographia Literaria discusses Lyrical Ballads
Biographia Literaria relatedWork Lyrical Ballads