Question

What reception did lyrical ballads receive from critics when it was first published

Answer 1

The critisism of "lyrical ballads" (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth was weak at first.

Now it is considered the book that brought or initiated romanticism in the United Kingdom.

They sought to write using words that everyone could understand, exalting the original state of nature by focusing on simple, uneducated country people as the subject of poetry considered to be a signal shift to modern literature.

Answer 2

Lyric ballads have a negative reception when it was first published. Lyric ballads was published in 1798. Lyric ballads was started by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge. The theme of lyric ballads are about the nature, and describing things thru imagination.