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- Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798, was a collaborative effort by Wordsworth and Coleridge, featuring simple, rustic themes.
- Wordsworth aimed to capture the pure emotions found in rural life through straightforward, ordinary language.
- His poems focus on nature's beauty, drawing profound insights from the tranquility of the Lake District.
- The 1800 edition included Wordsworth's preface, a pivotal manifesto for the English Romantic movement.
- The preface defended their break from the artificial and elaborate poetic style of the 18th century.
The Lyrical Ballads were planned by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1797, and were published in 1798, with four poems by Coleridge and ninenteen by Wordsworth.
The two poets conceived this work as an experiment in poetry, in which Worsworth’s contribution was to make verse out of the incidents of simple rustic life, in a language that was a selection from the phrases of ordinary speech. He was convinced that the passions exist in their purest form in simple rural life, and thus the humble activities of ordinary people could serve as poetic themes.
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The second edition of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge was published in 1800. It included more poems by Wordsworth and a long preface, which eventually come to be considered the manifesto of the English Romantic movement. In it Wordsworth explained his own and Coleridge's ideas about poetry, its language and its subjects. One of the central issues, which was to have a major influence on the development of English literature, was the lucid defence of their own work, seen as a break with the artificiality and over-elaborate style of 18th century poetry and its contrived poetic diction.
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