Lyrical Ballads
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Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems 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
First edition title page
Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Robert Haydon
Samuel Taylor Coleridge portrait
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a
Lyrical Ballads
…contributing only four poems to the collection (although these made about a third of the book in length), including one of his most famous works, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A second edition was published in 1800, in which Wordsworth included additional poems and a preface detailing the pair's avowed poetical principles…
The Mariner up on the mast in a storm. One of the wood-engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré of the poem.
Frontispiece by William Strang for a 1903 edition of Coleridge's poem.
Engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of the poem. The Albatross depicts 17 sailors on the deck of a wooden ship facing an albatross. Icicles hang from the rigging.
"The Albatross about my Neck was Hung", etching by William Strang, published 1896