Wordsworth introduces Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a Friend” who contributed several poems—The Ancient Mariner, “The Foster Mother’s Tale,” “The Nightingale,” “The Dungeon,” and “Love”—to Lyrical Ballads, and who shares the same Romantic tendency: their “opinions on the subject of poetry do almost entirely coincide.” Coleridge helped Wordsworth launch the Romantic era in English literature; indeed, the two poets’ names are often linked together, along with Wordsworth’s sister, Dorothy Wordsworth. The companionship of Coleridge was a major source of encouragement and inspiration for Wordsworth in terms of writing the Lyrical Ballads and its accompanying preface.
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Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
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Several of my Friends are anxious for the success of these Poems from a belief, that if the views, with which they were composed, were indeed realized, a class of Poetry would be produced, well adapted to interest mankind permanently, and not unimportant in the multiplicity and in the quality of its moral relations […].
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
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Several of my Friends are anxious for the success of these Poems from a belief, that if the views, with which they were composed, were indeed realized, a class of Poetry would be produced, well adapted to interest mankind permanently, and not unimportant in the multiplicity and in the quality of its moral relations […].
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