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Who are the authors of Lyrical Ballads?

The authors of Lyrical Ballads (1798) are the English Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The first edition was published anonymously, though later editions credited the landmark poetry collection to β€œW. Wordsworth.” In the preface of these later editions, Wordsworth refers to Coleridge merely as β€œa Friend,” thereby acknowledging those poems penned by Coleridge.