William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge · CatalogWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge · CatalogWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) met in 1795 and spent 1797-98 as neighbours in the Quantock Hills of Somerset, walking and planning poems together.
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
About William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) met in 1795 and spent 1797-98 as neighbours in the Quantock Hills of Somerset, walking and planning poems together. Lyrical Ballads, published anonymously in 1798, was the fruit of that friendship. Wordsworth went on to write The Prelude and become Poet Laureate; Coleridge became the age's great philosophical critic and Christian thinker.
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“One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man; Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.”
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, published anonymously in Bristol and London in the autumn of 1798, is often called the book that began English Romantic poetry. It contains twenty-three poems: four by Coleridge and the rest by Wordsworth.