Lyrical Ballads: With A Few Other Poems (Penguin Classics: Poetry First Editions) - Softcover

200 years since its first publication, LYRICAL BALLADS will be published as it was put together by Wordsworth ad Coleridge. Accepted as one of the most revolutionary and influential books of English poetry, LYRICAL BALLADS includes Coleridge's 'TheRime of the Ancient Mariner' and Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey'. Published as part of the Penguin Poetry First Editions series in which the greatest collections of poetry in English will be published in their original form. All texts have been completely reset and some minor changes made to punctuation.

Coleridge (1772-1834) has been criticized as a political turn-coat, drug addict and plagiarist whose wrecked career left only a handful of magical early poems. But the shaping influence of his highly imaginative criticism is now generally accepted,and his position, along with Wordsworth (1770-1850), as one of the two great progenitors of the English Romantic spirit is assured. A great innovator, Wordsworth permanently enlarged the range of English poetry both in subject matter and treatment.