Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poetic
revolution, both in its attitude to its subject-matter and its
anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's and
Coleridge's other major poems were central to the Romantic period
and remain classic texts in our own time. Wordsworth focuses on
'the essential passions of the heart' and achieves a penetrating
insight into love and death, solitude and community. Coleridge
explores a more fantastic and dreamlike imagination and also writes
poems of quiet, conversational meditation. Both poets look with a
fresh and visionary eye at the human and the natural world. They
examine the condition of men and women at the extreme edge of
society; they are also subtle analysts of their own minds and the
processes of introspection and memory. This volume contains all of
Lyrical Ballads (1798) with Wordsworth's Preface of 1800/1802, and
a wide-ranging selection of both poet's other work, including
virtually all their best known and discussed shorter poems.
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