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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 by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, contained 23 poems in total.1
Of these pieces, 19 were written by Wordsworth and 4 were contributed by Coleridge. This landmark collection, which helped initiate the Romanticism movement in English literature, sought to democratize poetry by utilizing common language rather than formal structures.12