page_title: 1798 in poetry
section_title: United Kingdom
hierarchical_section_title: 1798 in poetry / Works published / United Kingdom
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page from: Wordsworth, William and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads, with a few other poems. London: Printed for J. &amp; A. Arch, 1798.
context_page_description: Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
context_section_description: Robert Anderson, Poems on Various Subjects
  William Lisle Bowles, St. Michael's Mount
  George Canning and J. H. Frere, The Loves of the Triangles, a parody of Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  Fears in Solitude, a small pamphlet including
  "Fears in Solitude: Written in April 1798, During the Alarm of an Invasion"
  "France: An Ode", first published as The Recantation: An Ode and later renamed; the poem mark's Coleridge's political turn away from revolutionary France after the French invasion of Switzerland; first published in the April 16 edition of the Morning Post
  "Frost at Midnight"
  See William Wordsworth, below for more information on Lyrical Ballads, a collection of Coleridge's and Wordsworth's poems, including Coleridge's
  "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (title later changed to Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 1800 edition, in which the author also dropped much of the archaic wording)
  "The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem"
  Joseph Cottle, Malvern Hills
  William Cowper, "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture"
  Thomas Gisborne, Poems, Sacred and Moral
  Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, Blank Verse, including Lamb's "The Old Familiar Faces"
  Richard Polwhele (anonymously), The Unsex'd Females
  Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems
  William Sotheby, Oberon, translation from the original German of Christoph Martin Wieland
  William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published anonymously, Lyrical Ballads with a Few Other Poems (see Coleridge, above, for more on his contributions to the work; and see also Lyrical Ballads 1801, 1802, 1805 and 1815) including:
  "Lucy Gray"
  "Tintern Abbey"
  "We are Seven"
  The Lucy poems:
  "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
  "A slumber did my spirit seal"
  "Strange fits of passion have I known"
  "Three years she grew in sun and shower"
  "I travelled among unknown men"
caption: First edition title page of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
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