Lyrical BalladsWhen it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge’s and Wordsworth’s contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancyent Marinere. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Lyrical Ballads 1798 | 46 |
Lyrical Ballads 1800 | 162 |
Preface 1800 Version with 1802 Variants | 286 |
Notes to the Poems | 315 |
Text of Lewti or the Circassian LoveChant | 361 |
Wordworths Appendix on Poetic Diction
From the 1802 Edition of Lyrical Ballads | 365 |
Some Contemporary Criticisms
of Lyrical Ballads | 371 |
Index of Titles | 398 |
Index of First Lines | 401 |
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