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| Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads changed how people
thought about poetry. It was radical because it contained a
new brand of wisdom and knowledge, at once enlightening and
unsettling for the secure, well-educated elite. |
| A number of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's pedantic and snobbish
contempories found the style and content of Lyrical Ballads
uncouth. But the volume was, and is, fluent and vascular with
the sort of life and sensation not taught in schools. Lyrical
Ballads is as relevant today as when it was first published
in 1798. |
| Andrew Keanie, author of the Greenwich Exchange
Guides to Wordsworth,
Coleridge
and Byron, offers
a lively and informative guide through the most important collaborative
volume of poems ever published. |
| This series is available at a special price of £3.99
for schools only. |
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