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Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 114 pages

Lyrical Ballads is a landmark collection of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, first published in 1798. It experiments with the language of everyday speech and includes works such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. Listening to it offers a direct experience of the dawn of English Romantic poetry.

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Contents

  1. LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS.
  2. LONDON PRINTED FOR J. & A. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-STREET. 1798
  3. ADVERTISEMENT.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE, IN SEVEN PARTS.
  6. THE FOSTER-MOTHER’S TALE, A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.
  7. LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE WHICH STANDS NEAR THE LAKE OF ESTHWAITE, ON A DESOLATE PART OF THE SHORE, YET COMMA
  8. THE NIGHTINGALE;
  9. THE FEMALE VAGRANT.
  10. GOODY BLAKE, AND HARRY GILL, A TRUE STORY.
  11. LINES WRITTEN AT A SMALL DISTANCE FROM MY HOUSE, AND SENT BY MY LITTLE BOY TO THE PERSON TO WHOM THEY ARE ADDRESSED.
  12. SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, WITH AN INCIDENT IN WHICH HE WAS CONCERNED.
  13. ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS SHEWING HOW THE ART OF LYING MAY BE TAUGHT.
  14. WE ARE SEVEN.
  15. LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
  16. THE THORN.
  17. THE LAST OF THE FLOCK.
  18. THE DUNGEON.
  19. THE MAD MOTHER.
  20. THE IDIOT BOY.
  21. LINES WRITTEN NEAR RICHMOND, UPON THE THAMES, AT EVENING.
  22. EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY.
  23. THE TABLES TURNED; AN EVENING SCENE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
  24. OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY AND DECAY, A SKETCH.
  25. THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN
  26. THE CONVICT.
  27. LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 1798.
  28. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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