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- Duración
- 20.800 palabras
- Nivel en la biblioteca
- Mediano longer sentences, everyday words
- Primera publicación
- 1798by William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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You will enjoy this book if you like poems that tell stories, the voices of ordinary people, sea tales with a touch of the supernatural, and quiet country walks.
De qué trata este libro
A sailor with a glittering eye stops a stranger on his way to a wedding.
This scene opens The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the first poem in Lyrical Ballads. The book came out in 1798 as the joint work of two friends, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with no author names. Together they wanted to see how far everyday speech could carry poetry. You get the heart of English Romantic poetry.
En este resumen
- 1A preface proposes poetry in everyday speechFree
- 2A shot from a crossbow breaks the world
- 3A becalmed ship, a ghost ship, a lone survivor
- 4Love for sea creatures starts the healing
- 5The mariner reaches home and must keep telling
- 6The poor and the forsaken speak for themselves
- 7Tales of mystery, comedy and children
- 8Nature teaches what books cannot
- 9A return to the Wye closes the book
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A preface proposes poetry in everyday speech
The book opens with a short preface that sounds a little like a dare. The author says most of the poems are experiments. He wants to find out how far the language of conversation among ordinary people can serve the purposes of poetic pleasure.
He knows readers may be thrown. Many are used to showy, empty language in verse, and they may wonder what gives these pieces the right to be called poetry. His advice is gentle. Do not let one disputed word stand in the way of your pleasure. Ask whether the poems give a natural picture of human passions, characters and events.
The Thorn, he adds, is told by a talkative narrator, and his character shows as he speaks.
These are not grand speeches. They are voices, some odd and some broken, and each is meant to ring true.
Come ready to judge these poems by whether their people and passions feel true.
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Every format is free to start, and print and large print are at cost.
- LengthAbout 20,800 words
- Reading timeAbout 1 h 30 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 13 other languages
Questions about Baladas líricas, con algunos otros poemas (1798)
What is Lyrical Ballads about?
It is a collection of poems about ordinary people, including beggars, mothers, children, an old huntsman and a sailor, and about nature's power to heal. Its preface describes the poems as experiments in the language of everyday conversation.
Who wrote Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth or Coleridge?
Both did. The 1798 book was a joint work that first appeared without names. Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Nightingale and a few more, and Wordsworth wrote most of the rest, including Tintern Abbey.
What is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner about?
An old sailor stops a wedding guest to tell how his ship sailed to the icy south, how he shot a friendly albatross, and how the crew suffered on a silent sea. It is a story of guilt and love for living things.
Why is Lyrical Ballads important in English poetry?
It tests whether everyday speech can carry poetry and puts ordinary lives, feeling and nature at the centre. Later poets followed that path, and the volume is often seen as the start of English Romantic poetry.
Is Lyrical Ballads easy to read?
Most poems are short, built on clear stories and plain words, so you can read them one at a time. Many are ballads with a strong rhythm that sounds natural aloud, and a short preface explains the aim.
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Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798). Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/lyrical-ballads-with-a-few-other-poems-1798.
Wordsworth, W., & Coleridge, S. T. (2026). Lyrical ballads, with a few other poems (1798). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/lyrical-ballads-with-a-few-other-poems-1798 (Original work published 1798)
Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798). Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/lyrical-ballads-with-a-few-other-poems-1798.
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