The 1800 edition of Lyrical ballads consists of two volumes. The first contains most of the poems of the 1798 volume, though in a different order, together with a Preface, in which Wordsworth, working from Coleridge's notes, delivers the first sustained exposition by either poet of their shared convictions on the nature of poetry and its language. The second contains wholly new poems, including the Lucy poems, 'There was a boy', 'The Brothers', and 'Michael'. In its two-volume form Lyrical Ballads is reissued in 1802 and 1805 as the new voice of Wordsworth's poetry comes gradually to be heard.
... Still wandering with an easy mind 70 To build a household fire and find A home in every glade. ... and South Carolina, Georgia, East andWest Florida (1792); Bartram also describes the Indian girls with baskets of strawberries on p.
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....
Wordsworth contributed most of the poems to this volume but those by Coleridge include perhaps his most famous - "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800
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.
This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the 1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety.
Reproduction of the original: Lyrical Ballads, with a few Other Poems (1800) by William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1 by William Wordsworth
This is a comprehensively revised second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together.
Lyrical Ballads With Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1 is a classic collection of English poetry by William Wordsworth.