... must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the
weight of over-cooked Augustanisms. The Guardian They were written
chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of
conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted
to the purposes of poetic pleasure -- William Wordsworth, from the
Advertisment prefacing the original 1798 edition. When it was first
published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day:
Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly
different to what had been voiced before. For Wordsworth, as he so
clearly stated in his celebrated preface to the 1800 edition (also
reproduced here), the important thing was the emotion aroused by
the poem, and not the poem itself. This acclaimed Routledge
Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the
poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge's
and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and includes some of their most
famous poems, including Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.
Movement, deeply influenced by a love of nature. the founders of
the Romantic Movement.
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