A new species of poetry: The making of Lyrical Ballads - Wordsworth Grasmere

On September 15, 1795, the "Lyrical Ballads" was published by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. It was the first work and the beginning of the English Romantic movement. From the article:

"Before long the two began to discuss collaborating on a volume of “experimental” poems, as Wordsworth insisted on calling them. As Wordsworth later explained, the goal was to write poetry which reflected seriously on the lives of humble, rustic people. The collection would also be written in a style of language which imitated the way these people actually spoke, which according to Wordsworth was less artificial and more impassioned. Both poets believed that the language and subject-matter of modern poetry had become ornate, formulaic, and phony, and the two of them offered their collection as a kind of manifesto, which if successful might completely renovate the sphere of English art and letters.
But Wordsworth and Coleridge also had different roles to play in this experiment which would determine just how far the language and events of common life could be adapted to poetry and art. Wordsworth would primarily write about the extraordinary in the ordinary, about the “powerful feeling” which accompanies what seems, on initial glance, to be perfectly commonplace and trivial life circumstances: think, for example, of the overwhelming joy which Betty Foy experiences on simply observing her mentally disabled son in The Idiot Boy. Meanwhile, Coleridge would focus on the ordinary in the extraordinary, exploring how the mind functions in exceptional circumstances: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere explores (among a great many other things) the familiar sensations of faith, guilt, cruelty, obsession, and endurance, experienced by a man stuck upon a ghost ship (literally!) and hounded by supernatural forces. And so it was truly a collection of ‘lyrical ballads’, a book of poetry consisting of both the lyric poem’s serious study of character and subjectivity, and the ballad`s embrace of the supernatural, comic, and adventurous."