{"product_id":"lyrical-ballads-with-a-few-other-poems-9780140424621","title":"Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwenty-three poems that transformed English poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e allows modern readers to recapture the book's original impact. In these poems--including Wordsworth's \"Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey\" and Coleridge's \"The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere\"--the two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Wordsworth \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1770 at Cockermouth in the Lake District of England, and was educated at the University of Cambridge. As a young man he was fired with enthusiasm for the French Revolution, but the year he spent in France after graduating left him disillusioned with radical politics. He turned more seriously to literature and, in collaboration with his friend Samuel Coleridge, produced \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e (1798). His return to the Lake District in 1799 marked the beginning of his most productive period as a poet, during which he wrote his most famous long poem, \u003ci\u003eThe Prelude \u003c\/i\u003e (1805). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge \u003c\/b\u003e(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, and Jesus College, Cambridge. With his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge founded the romantic movement and became a member of the Lake Poets. In 1798 they cowrote \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e, a landmark collection of poems that marked the beginning of romanticism in English literature. The collection includes his greatest poem, \u003ci\u003eThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Schmidt\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Novel: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e and the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, \u003ci\u003eLives of the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eSchmidt studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. In 1969, he founded Carcanet Press Limited, where he is currently the editorial and managing director. He is also a founder and general editor of PN Review. Schmidt was Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University, visiting professor at Bolton University, and Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge. Schmidt writes poetry, fiction, and literary history, and is also a translator and anthologist. He was born in Mexico in 1947 and currently lives in the UK.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844045934866,"sku":"9780140424621","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e67fefcf-5948-4e19-84ff-1ebc67f4f7a6.jpg?v=1737308509","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lyrical-ballads-with-a-few-other-poems-9780140424621","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}