Important letters are included, as well as a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. It offers modern readers a sense of what it was like to encounter Lyrical Ballads for the first time, and to see how it developed. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with the fullest version of the Preface and Wordsworth's important Appendix on Poetic Diction. Wordsworth's famous Preface is a manifesto not just for Romanticism but for poetry in general. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey', 'A Slumber did my Spirit seal' and many more. Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Helpful notes provide glosses and contextual information as well as details of composition and revision.

Appendices include Coleridge's famous glosses to 'The Ancient Mariner', added in 1817, Wordsworth's letters to Charles James Fox and John Wilson, and Wilson's letter to Wordsworth, which complement the Preface in representing Wordsworth's defence of his poems.

It provides biographical background, an account of the poets' collaboration, and how they were affected by the political situation at home and abroad.

Wide-ranging introduction offers insight into the experience of the collection's first readers and the astonishing quality of the poems.

Includes Wordsworth's famous Preface in its fullest form, a key document for Romanticism and for poetry in general, and his important Appendix on Poetic Diction.

The inclusion of both texts shows how the collection developed against the changing political situation of the time, and the private lives of the poets. Lyrical Ballads is one of the most important collections of poetry ever published, and includes poems such as 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey'.The only edition to combine the first edition of 1798 with the enlarged edition of 1802.Lyrical Ballads 17 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeĮdited by Fiona Stafford Oxford World's Classics Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

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