Part 1 (Life, Times, Themes) sets Lyrical Ballads in the context of Wordsworth life and his age, for instance Wordsworth in France. Part 2, Literary Strategies, considers Wordsworth's provocative theories of how poetry should work, and includes a treatment of the famous' Preface' to Lyrical Ballads, one of the great poetic manifestos. Part 3 offers illuminating commentary and questions on the following poems:' We are seven',' Anecdote for fathers',' Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree',' To my sister',' Lines written in Early Spring',' Expostulation and Reply',' The Tables Turned';,' The Female Vagrant',' Goody Blake and Harry Gill',' The Last of the Flock',' The Mad Mother',' The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman',' The Convict',' Old Man travelling',' Simon Lee',' The Idiot Boy',' TheThorn',' Tintern Abbey',' Hart-leap Well',' There was a boy',' Nutting',' The Lucy Poems',' The Brothers' and' Michael'. Part 4, on Critical Reception, discusses contemporary, Victorian and recent critical approaches to Wordsworth and includes an annotated guide to further reading.
This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the 1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety.
Lyrical Ballads, published as a single volume in 1798, then in 1800 as a two-volume set including new poems, is widely regarded as having inaugurated the Romantic Revolution in poetry....
Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only five poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famous Preface. It includes important letters, a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes.
This volume contains all of "Lyrical Ballads" with Wordsworth's preface of 1800/1802, and a wide range of both poets' other work across their poetic careers.
First published in London in 1888, this is the complete works of one of the great poets of English Romanticism in ten charming, compact volumes.
Originally put together by Wordsworth and Coleridge, this publication of English poetry, includes Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey.
Although Lyrical Ballads has mainly been studied for its revolution in poetics, this series will help readers explore how the collection's poetic ideas extend into the sociopolitical world.
Lyrical Ballads
Even the title of the collection recalls rustic forms of art - the word "lyrical" links the poems with the ancient rustic bards and lends an air of spontaneity, while "ballads" are an oral mode of storytelling used by the common people.