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Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the "spirit of the age," which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?

Correct answer: C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
  • B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley
  • C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • D. Charles Lamb and William HazlittRead Classic Poetry

Explanation

“Lyrical Ballads” was jointly produced by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and its 1798 publication is commonly treated as a landmark of English Romanticism. The volume combined Wordsworth’s interest in ordinary life with Coleridge’s supernatural imagination.

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