Lyrical Ballads

"Poetry; the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” — William Wordsworth Universally hailed as the founding text of English Romanticism and lauded for its exploration of emotion, nature, and the common man, Lyrical Ballads is a work that is rare by any measure.Focusing on nature, life, and the emotional experience of ordinary people, it was the first to break away from the formal, prescriptive style of 18th-century verse, with Wordsworth’s contributions emphasizing the beauty and spiritual power of the natural world, and Coleridge’s poems weaving elements of the mysterious and the supernatural.Redefining poetry, Lyrical Ballads was a first, revealing it as a prism with which to view ordinary life and unveil the profound insights hidden within. And being repopularised again and again in the modern age, most recently in the hit tv show, ‘The Other Bennet Sister’, it is a work whose influence seems to be here to stayCarefully and beautifully remastered for the modern reader, this edition contains:The full and unabridged collection of poems, ‘Lyrical Ballads’, by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor ColeridgeA full biography of the life of William Wordsworth Read more