Lyrical Ballads - Romanticism Arrives in English
1798
Wordsworth and Coleridge, walking the Quantock Hills, published a small anonymous book of poems. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' led it; 'Tintern Abbey' closed it. The preface (added later) argued that poetry should use the language of common men. English Romanticism had a manifesto it had not meant to write.
In context
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Before and after in Europe
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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