<DIV><B>Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry</B><p> Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of <I>Lyrical Ballads</I> allows modern readers to recapture the book?s original impact. In these poems?including Wordsworth?s ?Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey? and Coleridge?s ?The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere??the two poets exercised new energies and opened up new themes.<BR><BR></DIV>