Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Author: first_name: Samuel Taylor
last_name: Coleridge
first_name: William
last_name: Wordsworth
Language: English
Year: 1798

<em>Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems</em> is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to