A review by phdoingmydamnbest
Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth

3.0

As you all probably already know I am not really a huge fan of Wordsworth, in fact, I pretty much dislike most of his stuff- and even when I find myself liking something he wrote then I remember he wrote it anddddd I don't like it anymore. 'Daffodils' was in my poetry anthology I studied at school at 15/16 and I remember thinking 'I've never really read anything in this class I've disliked so intensely until we read this.'

Lyrical Ballads as a collection is okay though, I definitely prefer Coleridge's contributions- and I find the Preface to be somewhat unpalatable. It's certainly not an arrangement of poems in a collection I would ever consider putting together myself (although I know fans of the book will say that's part of its charm.)

But since I've started reading the Dorothy Wordsworth journals I've grown to dislike these poems even more, as so many draw on her content but without her eye for detail and vivacity.

I really love Dorothy- look out for my review of her journals coming soon!