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“This is a fascinating book in so many ways. The Lyrical Ballads was a kind of manifesto for a new way of doing poetry. The form of the poetry was very shocking at the time and they were also bringing a new point to poetry. And that point is what really brings this very close to eco-philosophy. What they tried to do in the Lyrical Ballads was to produce a sort of poetic manifesto for thinking about nature in a different way, in a more serious way, than was customary at the time.” Read more...
Rupert Read, Environmentalist
“Wordsworth is in all sorts of ways just as indebted to Coleridge as Coleridge ever was to Wordsworth.” Read more...
