Who wrote Lyrical Ballads?

Lyrical Ballads was a collaborative collection of poems published in 1798 by English poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.12

While the first edition was published anonymously, it contained 23 poems in total, with 19 written by Wordsworth and 4 by Coleridge. Subsequent editions credited the work to Wordsworth, though Coleridge’s contributions remained, and Wordsworth added significant prefaces that outlined their shared theories on poetry. By utilizing common language and conversational rhythms, the authors sought to democratize poetry, an effort that effectively signaled the beginning of English Romanticism.21