Wordsworth moved to the Quantock Hills to live near Coleridge, then Coleridge moved to the Lake District to live near Wordsworth. “Lyrical Ballads,” the volume they published together in 1798, ...

The Ballad. of Dorothy Wordsworth. A Life. Frances Wilson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 318 pp., $30. Literature is supposed to be a serious, solitary profession.

Last week, I made a pilgrimage to Dove Cottage—a tiny white house nestled among the meres and fells of England's Lake District. William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived there while they ...

This time he selects ‘Lyrical Ballads’, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798. Their collection changed the course of British poetry.

IN the autumn of 1798, shortly after the publication of Lyrical Ballads, which contained The Ancient Mariner, Wordsworth and Coleridge went to Germany.

Break-ups had happened before of course. Henry VIII's split from the Vatican comes to mind, or Socrates' spat with the Athenian state, but this is the break-up over which we still take sides. Even ...

British Poets Launched Lyrical Revolution During a brief, but incredibly productive year at the end of the 18th century, British poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge joined forces ...