Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the collection broke away from traditional poetic form. Of the twenty-three poems, Wordsworth penned works such as `Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey` and `The Idiot Boy` that use colloquial speech and take the everyday as their theme. The collection also includes Coleridge`s greatest poem `The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere`, a supernatural tale of a sailor`s voyage.