Lyrical Ballads

The most influential collection of poems ever published - fully edited and annotated and including the famous preface of 1800. Lists the table of contents of the four different editions, so that readers can compare what stayed in and what was left out An appendix compares the same poem from the 1st and 2nd editions, looking at what changes were made, what they could mean and what they show about Wordsworth's development as a writer Contains a new Preface by John Mullan Contains Michael Mason's General Introduction, providing the clearest account of the collection's genesis, while exploring the Coleridge Wordsworth relationship and the influence their collaboration would have on the generations to come

Professor Michael Mason was Professor of English at University College, London and the author of, among other things, Victorian Sexuality.

Professor John Mullan is Professor of English at University College, London and the author of numerous books, a regular pundit on The Late Review and a Guardian columnist.

Professor Danny karlin is Professor of English at Boston University. He is the editor of The Poems of Browning in the Longman Annotated English Poets series and author of numerous books.

New: Introduction
General introduction: Lyrical Ballads 1798 to 1805
The Wordsworth-Coleridge collaboration
Lyrical Ballads generically considered
An infinite complexity of pain and pleasure
Authors accompanying statements: Coleridge's lines on 'The Nightingale'
Advertisment
Argument to "The Ancient Mariner" (1798)
Coleridge's letter on "love"
Wordsworth's note to "The Thorn"
Wordsworth's note to "The Ancient Mariner"; argument to "The Ancient Mariner" (1800)
Wordsworth to Charles James Fox
Coleridge to William Wilberforce
Coleridge to Sir James Bland Burges
From Wordsworth's letter to Thomas Poole
Wordsworth to John Wilson
Arrangements and classifications
Authors' later comment
Sources
The Ancient Mariner The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
Goody Blake and Harry Gill
The Mad Mother
Ruth 11.49.60 1978 text of The Ancient Mariner
NEW: Textual History of Lyrical Ballads
NEW: Bibilography
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