A conversation poem is a genre in English poetry that grew out of the close collaboration between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth in the late 1790s. The term applies especially to Coleridge's own group of Conversation poems and to similar poems by Wordsworth, such as Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey and The Prelude, each addressing someone close to the poet in an informal but seriously deliberative manner.
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Place of Origin Notable ExampleLines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth 1 Defining TraitAddresses someone very close to the poet in an informal but serious manner of deliberation that expands from a particular setting 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Conversation poem - Wikipedia
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A conversation poem is a genre in English poetry growing out of the close co-operation between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth in the late 1790s.
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Other examples of such poems include Wordsworth's 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey' and The Prelude.
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The name is applied particularly to the group of poems by Coleridge known as the Conversation poems and covers others like them by Wordsworth, these poems being defined as addressing someone very close to the poet in 'an informal but serious manner of deliberation that expands from a particular setting'.
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