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How many poems in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads were written by William Wordsworth?

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William Wordsworth — William Wordsworth English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, portrait by Henry Edridge, 1804; at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, England.

The first edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798, contained a total of 23 poems. Of these, 19 were written by William Wordsworth and 4 were written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.1