Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks
the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written
by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the
collection broke away from traditional poetic form. Of the twenty-three
poems, Wordsworth penned works such as 'Lines written a few miles above
Tintern Abbey' and 'The Idiot Boy' that use colloquial speech and take
the everyday as their theme. The collection also includes Coleridge's
greatest poem 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere', a supernatural tale of
a sailor's voyage.