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Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)

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A collection of lyric and narrative poems experiments with the language of everyday speech to portray natural scenes, rural life, and human feeling. It pairs short dramatic and conversational pieces with longer narrative ballads, including an eerie maritime tale told by an ancient mariner, alongside domestic sketches and reflective lyrics on memory, solitude, and landscape. Many pieces adopt plain diction and familiar incidents to examine moral experience, imagination, and the bonds between people and place, while varying form and voice to test how ordinary language can produce concentrated poetic and emotional effects.

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Title: Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)

Author: William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Release date: January 1, 2006 [eBook #9622]
Most recently updated: June 17, 2021

Language: English

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