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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Lyrical Ballads
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(1798)
Joint volume of poems by *Coleridge and *Wordsworth which was a milestone in the *Romantic movement. It was a reaction against the artificiality of 18C verse and an attempt to use the language of everyday conversation for poetry. Coleridge applied this principle to 'supernatural or at least romantic' subjects, while Wordsworth's aim was to find poetic appeal in familiar things. The two best-known works published in the collection, The *Ancient Mariner and *Tintern Abbey, reflect this difference. A second edition in 1801 included many new poems by Wordsworth, together with a preface in which he expounded his theories of natural diction and of poetry as 'emotion recollected in tranquillity'.
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