warmly recommended.The 73 year-old Wordsworth, in a note dictated to Isabella Fenwick about ‘We Are Seven’, agreed that his task was to write about subjects from common life but to treat them imaginatively. elegant, informative and clearly written introduction, a lucid overview of the Lyrical Ballads' transformation between 17. 'An invaluable resource for both teachers and students of Romantic literature.

'Lyrical Ballads, in case you missed it, is, quite simply, possibly the single most important collection of poems in English ever published.' - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'For students of the Lyrical Ballads as one of the key texts of Romanticism, Staffords new edition, juxtaposing the two 17 versions, is highly recommendable as it finely lays out both the reader response dimension of its poetics and the contexts of its production.' - Helga Schwalm, The BARS Review 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.It includes important letters, a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famous Preface. Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism.

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