The Great Romantics - selected poems Author:William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge collaborated on one of literature?s most celebrated works, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, whose publication in 1798 established them as the early leaders of the English Romantic movement. In a revolt against prevailing poetic styles - which focused on overly intellectualized, authoritari... more »an, and conservative ideas expressed in fussy Classical forms and language - their works sought to capture moments of intense emotion, a ?spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.? They addressed real - life subjects, deeply personal turns of thought and feeling, and wrote in the language of the common man?« less