This volume constitutes a must-read for all lovers of poetry and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Wordsworth's seminal work. This new edition includes and introductory excerpt by Thomas De Quincey.
This collection encompasses a diversity of themes and literary styles, ranging from the tranquility of nature to the tumults of the human psyche, effectively capturing the quintessence of Romanticism's valorization of emotion and nature.
Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only five poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".