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Lyrical Ballads : 1798 and 1802
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) William Wordsworth , By (author) Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Edited by Fiona Stafford


Listen, Stranger!

Wordsworth and Coleridges joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. 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. Wordsworths famous Preface is a manifesto not just for
Romanticism but for poetry in general.

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 Wordsworths important Appendix on Poetic Diction. 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. Important letters are included, as well as a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes.
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Product details

Format Paperback | 432 pages
Dimensions 141 x 195 x 20mm | 296g
Publication date 24 Jul 2013
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN10 0199601968
ISBN13 9780199601967
Bestsellers rank 102,983