![]() ![]() With friends like Coleridge, Wordsworth hopes to produce a new class of poetry, which will focus on “low and rustic life”-Wordsworth finds that the common people are less restrained and more honest because they are in constant communion with the beauty of nature. Wordsworth was alone in his effort he penned the Lyrical Ballads with the help of his good friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Unlike the highbrow poetry of his contemporaries, the late-Neoclassical writers, Wordsworth’s poems in Lyrical Ballads engage with the lives of the peasantry and are written in stripped-down, common language. In it, Wordsworth explains why he wrote his experimental ballads the way he did. ![]() Over the years, Wordsworth’s “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads” has come to be seen as a manifesto for the Romantic movement in England. ![]()
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