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Who was Wordsworth's closest collaborator in "Lyrical Ballads"?

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Answer:

A. Coleridge

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William Wordsworth's closest collaborator in Lyrical Ballads was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The two were English Romantic poets who published Lyrical Ballads in 1798. 

  • Wordsworth and Coleridge were friends who inspired and criticized each other's poetry. 

  • They met in Bristol in 1795 and became lifelong friends. 

  • They lived together in Grasmere, where they influenced each other's work. 

  • They were part of a group of poets known as the "Lake Poets". 

  • Their work helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature. 

  • Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems that reflects the poets' ideas about the relationship between humans and the world. Some of the poems in the collection include: "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" by Coleridge, "We are Seven" by Wordsworth, "Goody Blake and Harry Gill" by Wordsworth, "Simon Lee" by Wordsworth, and "Tintern Abbey" by Wordsworth


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