Start from the beginning of the English Romantic movement. Two poets believed everyone should be able to enjoy the beauty of the English language. Wordsworth and Coleridge cover the breadth of human emotions and speak to the soul of a human in this wonderful collection published in 1798.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.