Lyrical Ballads

<p>When it was first published <em>Lyrical Ballads</em> enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed <em>Routledge Classics</em> edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge’s and Wordsworth’s contemporaries and includes some of their most famous poems including Coleridge’s <em>Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.</em></p>