Lyrical Ballads (In Our Time)
1798 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Lyrical Ballads, the collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge first published in 1798. The work was conceived as an attempt to cast off the stultifying conventions of formal 18th-century poetry. Wordsworth wrote that the poems it contains should be "considered as experiments.
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Around 1798
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)