A review by peterp3
Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth

4.5

It’s good to read the original selection as published by Wordsworth and Coleridge after their year of friendship in Somerset. But it’s a strangely mixed bag - The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere in particular seems very out of place as the first poem in the volume. My favourites here are Wordsworth’s poems of ordinary people facing tough lives - The Female Vagrant, The Thorn, The Last of the Flock, The Idiot Boy.