Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads'

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge''s Rime of the Ancyent Marinere and Wordsworth''s Lines written above Tintern Abbey were first published, lies at the heart of British Romanticism, establishing a poetics of powerful feeling, that is, nonetheless, expressed in direct, conversational language and exploring the every...