![]() ![]() ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.Įach affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Important letters are included, as well as a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes. ![]() In 1800 appeared a second edition (two volumes, the fi rst being in the main a reprint of Lyrical Ballads, 1798), and other editions followed in 18. It offers modern readers a sense of what it was like to encounter Lyrical Ballads for the first time, and to see how it developed. Lyrical Ballads cannot be said to have lived unnoticed even in its earlier years of existence. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with the fullest version of the Preface and Wordsworth's important Appendix on Poetic Diction. ![]() Wordsworth's famous Preface is a manifesto not just forRomanticism but for poetry in general. ![]() Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey', 'A Slumber did my Spirit seal' and many more. 'Listen, Stranger!'Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. ![]()
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