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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 200 7 174 x 110 mm 508 pages |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lyrical Ballads 1800 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’. £48 $85 The principal object then which I proposed to myself in these poems was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature. |
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