![]() ![]() ![]() Stanzas from the first of these poems are typical: Many of these lyrics record the growth of the speaker’s perceptions as he creates and meditates upon his view of the world. Spring 1798 saw an extraordinary period of Wordsworth creative activity on lyrics and ballads. As for Wordsworth’s activity late in 1797 and early in 1798, he completed his play The Borderers, revised his tale of The Ruined Cottage by adding an account of the philosophic pedlar-narrator, and began an industrious programme of reading in preparation for his work on the vast philosophical poem The Recluse. ![]() In order to pay the expenses of a walking tour, the two poems began the Rime of the Ancient Mariner collaboratively in November 1797, but the poem soon became Coleridge’s alone. However, Wordsworth’s brief critical statement included in Lyrical Ballads (1798) emphasizes stylistic matters: the majority of the poems were ‘experiments’ written ‘to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure’.Īs with most plans, what seemed so obvious to Wordsworth and Coleridge after Lyrical Ballads was published looks rather messy and haphazard at the start of their work on the book. The 73 year-old Wordsworth, in a note dictated to Isabella Fenwick about ‘We Are Seven’, agreed that his task was to write about subjects from common life but to treat them imaginatively. ![]()
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