Lyrical Ballads

by Wordsworth, William (Author); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (Author); Schmidt, Michael (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780140424621
• ISBN10: 0140424628
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-30
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetryWordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of Lyrical Balladsallows modern readers to recapture the book’s original impact. In these poems—including Wordsworth’s Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”—the two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes.

Author Biography

William Wordsworth (1770-û1850) permanently enlarged the range of English poetry both in subject matter and treatment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-û1834) is best known for his magical early poems and highly imaginative criticism.
Michael Schmidt is the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Lives of the Poets and the director of the writing school at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere	p. 1
The Foster-Mother's Tale	p. 26
Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite	p. 30
The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem	p. 32
The Female Vagrant	p. 36
Goody Blake and Harry Gill	p. 45
Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed	p. 50
Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman	p. 52
Anecdote for Fathers	p. 56
We Are Seven	p. 59
Lines written in Early Spring	p. 62
The Thorn	p. 63
The Last of the Flock	p. 73
The Dungeon	p. 77
The Mad Mother	p. 78
The Idiot Boy	p. 82
Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening	p. 98
Expostulation and Reply	p. 100
The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject	p. 102
Old Man Travelling	p. 104
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman	p. 105
The Convict	p. 108
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey	p. 110
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