A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim,
clothbound editions of ten favourite poets.
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth (Author)
William Wordsworth was born in the Lake District in April 1770, and
died there eighty years later on 23 April 1850. In his youth
Wordsworth experienced the French Revolution first hand and spent
his twenties wandering throughout Europe. In 1794 Wordsworth met
Samuel Taylor Coleridge with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads in 1798
and to whom he addressed his epic work, The Prelude. Wordsworth
gradually established himself as the great poet of the Romantic
period and in 1843 he became Poet Laureate.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet,
philosopher and literary critic. Born in Ottery St Mary, Coleridge
was educated at Christ's Hospital School, London where he began his
friendship with Charles Lamb and began writing his first sonnets.
With his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge founded the Romantic
Movement and became a member of the Lake Poets. In 1798 they
co-wrote Lyrical Ballads, a landmark collection of poems that
marked the beginning of Romanticism in English literature. The
collection includes his greatest poem 'The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner'.
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