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LYRICAL BALLADS - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH SAMUEL TAY...

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 Marnier'.

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