A review by kerry2046
Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth

4.0

I absolutely loved Coleridge's poems in this collection but Wordsworths were not all that good to me. I love the romantic poets, their work is amazing.... Keats, Shelley, Byron and I think Coleridge actually deserved to have more space in their collaborative collection but, Alas! WOrdsworth was a selfish old goat who even told Keats that his (superior) poetry was rubbish. Wordsworth struggled being overshadowed and the believed himself above all other poets when in fact, I found Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere and three other contributions bizarre and mystifying and far more intriguing than the majority of Wordsworth's poems. Not to say that I dislike all works of Wordsworth, he is one of the early romantics and influenced the greats. Some of his poems are brilliant like Harry Gill and Goody Blake but they did not all have the draw or charm of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work.