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William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, portrait by Henry Edridge, 1804; at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, England.
Lyrical Ballads, the landmark collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was first published in 1798.12
This revolutionary work, which signaled the beginning of English Romanticism, was initially released anonymously and contained 23 poems, including Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey" and Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."12