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3 unusual facts about Lyrical Ballads


Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Nearly a century after her death her poetic output had been largely forgotten, until the great English poet William Wordsworth praised her nature poetry in an essay included in his 1815 volume Lyrical Ballads.

River Wye

The Romantic poet William Wordsworth includes an apostrophe to the Wye in his famous poem "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" published 1798 in Lyrical Ballads

Summertime in England

Morrison originally wrote the song as a poem about William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge making a literary trip to the Lake District in England where they worked together on the poems that were to become their landmark joint venture, Lyrical Ballads.


Anecdote for Fathers

Anecdote for Fathers is a poem written by William Wordsworth and is included in the Lyrical Ballads


see also

The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem

The poem was included in a joint publication with William Wordsworth called Lyrical Ballads, which first appeared in 1798 (see 1798 in poetry).