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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