Lyrical Ballads (Penguin Classics)

Lyrical Ballads (Penguin Classics)

<b>Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry</b> <p> Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of <i>Lyrical Ballads</i> allows modern readers to recapture the book’s original impact. In these poems—including Wordsworth’s “Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”—the two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes.<br><br></p>