Lyrical Ballads (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-It is important that the Samuel Taylor Coleridge Literary Biography (1772-1834) has been translated. As is known, it is a kind of literary memories, in which criticism predominates, stylistic, metric reflections, the exposition of some Hartley ideas, the characteristics of imagination and fantasy and, above all, much around Wordsworth and his poetry, especially his Lyrical Ballads, where Coleridge's presence is notable. It is not a unitary book (in any of the two senses, although its author belonged to this belief in the first part of his life), but a kind of digression that, without doubt, is centered on poetry. The work was dictated, at least in part, to John Morgan, in 1815, and published in 1817. As those who knew him (for example, De Quincey in his masterful portrait), Coleridge was a magnificent speaker. Endowed with a good memory and an encyclopedic culture, he was given to astonish and overwhelm his interlocutors with immense monologues on a thousand subjects. Also, like so many at the time, he was an opiate. He tells us in the prologue to the work that there are few books that have awakened in English literature so many "judgments and perplexities." And although it does not go into many of the causes, I will point out the central one: this wonderful poet and scholar was also a copion of remarkable