The great work “Lyrical Ballads” by ‘William Wordsworth’ and ‘Samuel T. Coleridge

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Lyrical Ballads’ (1789) is a combined work of autobiography, philosophy and literary criticism. It presents Coleridge and Wordsworth’s theories of the creative imagination.The following entry presents criticism of Coleridge and Wordsworth’s poetry collection, Lyrical Ballads (1798). For further information on Samuel Taylor Coleridge see also, Rime of the Ancient Mariner Criticism and “Kubla Khan” Criticism.Literary historians consider the Lyrical Ballads (1798) a seminal work in the ascent of Romanticism and a harbinger of trends in the English poetry that followed it. The poetic principles discussed by Wordsworth in the “Preface” to the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads constitute a key primary document of the Romantic era because they announce a revolution in critical notions about poetic language, poetic subject matter, and the role of the poet.