Project Gutenberg 2005-09-01 Public domain in the USA. 338 Wordsworth, William 1770 1850 Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 2 Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Robert Prince and the DP Team "Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 2" by William Wordsworth is a collection of poetry penned in the early 19th century that explores nature, human emotion, and the complexities of individual experience. This volume particularly focuses on rural themes, with pastoral poems reflecting on the relationships between characters and their natural surroundings, as well as the themes of love, loss, and memory. The opening of the collection sets the tone with a poem titled "Hart-Leap Well," which narrates the tale of Sir Walter, a knight who triumphantly hunts a hart and subsequently reflects on the bittersweet nature of joy and permanence in his surroundings. As he builds a memorial at the site of his victory, the poem contrasts the fleeting ecstasy of the chase with the silence of nature that remains after the thrill has passed. The themes of life, death, and the ultimate return to nature are further expanded in the subsequent poems, where Wordsworth weaves vivid imagery and poignant narratives about characters like Lucy Gray and the coarse emotions of rural life, embedding the reader in the timeless beauty and sorrow of the human condition. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 77.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en English poetry -- 19th century PR Text Category: Poetry Category: British Literature 211368 2025-08-04T07:36:38.102038 text/html 211189 2025-01-11T22:43:47.450394 text/html 166719 2025-08-04T07:36:46.465977 application/epub+zip 168251 2025-08-04T07:36:41.642012 application/epub+zip 141216 2025-08-04T07:36:40.244009 application/epub+zip 359927 2025-08-04T07:36:49.131973 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 336983 2025-08-04T07:36:45.407986 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 296866 2022-09-04T12:30:47.564235 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 164112 2025-08-04T07:36:37.777023 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 159263 2021-01-02T14:16:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17124 2025-08-04T07:36:49.277947 application/rdf+xml 19048 2025-08-04T07:36:40.746988 image/jpeg 4171 2025-08-04T07:36:40.495993 image/jpeg 64200 2021-01-02T14:16:42 application/octet-stream application/zip 163261 2025-08-04T07:36:38.119016 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia