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Afternoon Reading - Lyrical Ballads

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A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration which marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement

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Afternoon Reading - Lyrical Ballads - Lewti and The Thorn

The poems Lewti, Coleridge's 'love chant' to an enigmatic and stony-hearted woman, and The Thorn, Wordsworth's ballad about a mysterious outcast.

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Afternoon Reading - Lyrical Ballads - The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems

The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem', and Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy.

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Afternoon Reading - Lyrical Ballads - Tintern Abbey and Love

Wordsworth's Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey and Coleridge's pseudo-medieval ballad, Love, in which a minstrel woos his beloved with a tale of a knight and his lady.

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