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Poetry · 1798

Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth

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Poetry · 1798 · English · Romantic

Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth

With Coleridge: the volume that reset English poetry toward ordinary language.

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'Tintern Abbey' invents the modern memory poem — landscape recalled becomes a way of measuring how far a self has travelled from itself.

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