Lyrical+Ballads

//Lyrical Ballads,// published in 1798, was a collaberative collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and although Coleridge only wrote four of the poems, he was an intellectual influence. They desired to separate their style from typical 18th century English poetry, which was very complex for most people of the time, and they wrote in in a more understandable language. They wanted to bring concepts of Romanticism, especially the relationship between man and nature, to the common people.