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Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lyrical Ballads By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A fascinating case study in the history of poetry, publishing, and authorship. This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the 1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety.

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Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Long central to the canon of British Romantic literature, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads is a fascinating case study in the history of poetry, publishing, and authorship. This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the 1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety.

In the appendices to this Broadview edition, reviews, correspondence, and a selection of contemporary verse and prose situate the work within the popular and experimental literature of its time, and allow readers to trace the work's transformations in response to the pressures of the literary marketplace.

Lyrical Ballads Reviews

Lyrical Ballads, the collection that, in many accounts, launched Romanticism, has often been reprinted, but never in a wholly satisfactory edition. ...Michael Gamer and Dahlia Porter, in yet another splendid Broadview edition, have provided the solution that scholars and students have longed for. This remarkable volume provides both the 1798 and 1800 volumes in full. But more than this; in eight appendices, they provide an astonishing wealth of extra material. ... This is a volume that will surely become a standard in the field, a vital tool in teaching and scholarship. ...[It is] more than one could possibly have hoped for. - Year's Work in English Studies (2010)

An edition we've all been waiting for, as teachers and as scholars-containing more than one would have thought possible to include in one volume. Herein is all the contextual material one could wish for: reviews from periodicals, including Southey's and Jeffrey's famous articles; discussions in correspondence, including comments by Coleridge, Lamb, Southey and Dorothy Wordsworth; critical discussions from Biographia and My First Acquaintance with Poets; poetic sources by Burger, Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams; verse responses by Southey, Mary Robinson; even a section detailing how the poems were rearranged in Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Collected Works. All this plus the texts of poems excluded from the 1798 and 1800 editions, a handy appendix plotting the poems' locations on maps of Britain and the Lakes, and a magisterial introduction. - Tim Fulford, Nottingham Trent University

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Michael Gamer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the co-editor of The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama.

Dahlia Porter is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Illustrations
Introduction
William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge: A Chronology
A Note on the Text

Lyrical Ballads, 1798 Edition

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The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere
The Foster-Mother's Tale, A Dramatic Fragment
Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite
The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem, Written in April, 1798
The Female Vagrant
Goody Blake, and Harry Gill, A True Story
Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the person to whom they are addressed
Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
Anecdote for Fathers
We Are Seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
The Thorn
The Last of the Flock
The Dungeon
The Mad Mother
The Idiot Boy
Lines Written Near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject
Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
The Convict
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798

Reviews of the 1798 Edition

  1. [Robert Southey], Critical Review (October 1798)
  2. Monthly Mirror (October 1798)
  3. Analytical Review (December 1798)
  4. New Annual Register for 1798 (1799)
  5. Monthly Magazine (January 1799)
  6. New London Review (January 1799)
  7. [Charles Burney], Monthly Review (June 1799)
  8. The British Critic (October 1799)
  9. Naval Chronicle (October and November 1799)
  10. Antijacobin Review (April 1800)
  11. [Daniel Stuart], Morning Post (April 1800)
  12. [Daniel Stuart], Courier (April 1800)
  13. [Daniel Stuart], Courier (June 1800)
  14. Portfolio (January 1801)

Lyrical Ballads, 1800 Edition

Volume I

Preface
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject
Animal Tranquillity & Decay, a Sketch
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
The Last of the Flock
Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite
The Foster-Mother's Tale, A Narration in Dramatic Blank Verse
Goody Blake & Harry Gill, A True Story
The Thorn
We Are Seven
Anecdote for Fathers
Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they areaddressed
The Female Vagrant
The Dungeon
Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
Lines Written in early Spring
The Nightingale, Written in April, 1798
Lines Written when sailing in a Boat at Evening
Lines Written near Richmond upon the Thames
The Idiot Boy
Love
The Mad Mother
The Ancient Mariner, A Poet's Reverie
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798
Notes

Volume II

Hart-Leap Well
There was a Boy
The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem
Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle
Strange fits of passion I have known
Song
A slumber did my spirit seal
The Waterfall and the Eglantine
The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral
Lucy Gray
The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral
'Tis said, that some have died for love
Poor Susan
Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water
Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere
To a Sexton
Andrew Jones
The Two Thieves, or the last Stage of Avarice
A whirl-blast from behind the hill
Song for the Wandering Jew
Ruth
Lines Written with a Slate-pencil upon a Stone
Lines Written on a Tablet in a School
The Two April Mornings
The Fountain, a Conversation
Nutting
Three years she grew in sun and shower
The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral
Written in Germany, On one of the coldest days of the Century
The Childless Father
The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description
Rural Architecture
A Poet's Epitaph
A Character, in the antithetical Manner
A Fragment
Poems on the Naming of Places
Michael, a Pastoral Poem
Notes

Reviews of the 1800 Edition

  1. [John Stoddard], The British Critic (February 1801)
  2. Monthly Mirror (June 1801)
  3. Portfolio (June 1801)
  4. Portfolio (December 1801)
  5. American Review and Literary Journal (January 1802)
  6. Monthly Review (June 1802)
  7. [Francis Jeffrey], Edinburgh Review (October 1802)
  8. Edinburgh Magazine (July 1803)

Appendix A: Additions to the 1802 Edition of Lyrical Ballads

  1. William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads with Pastoral and other Poems (1802)
  2. William Wordsworth, Appendix:-by what is usually called Poetic Diction (1802)

Appendix B: Poems by Coleridge Originally Intended for Lyrical Ballads

  1. Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chant
  2. Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie
  3. Christabel

Appendix C: Correspondence about Lyrical Ballads

  1. Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (8 June 1797)
  2. Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (ca. 3 July 1797)
  3. Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson (ca. June 1797)
  4. Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (13 March 1798)
  5. Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (ca. 28 May 1798)
  6. William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (2 June 1799)
  7. Dorothy Wordsworth to Mrs. John Marshall (10 and 12 September 1800)
  8. Samuel Coleridge to Humphry Davy (9 October 1800)
  9. William Wordsworth to Charles James Fox (14 January 1801)
  10. Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth (30 January 1801)
  11. Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning (15 February 1801)
  12. William Wordsworth to Samuel Coleridge (early March 1801)
  13. Charles James Fox to William Wordsworth (25 May 1801)
  14. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Bedford (19 August 1801)
  15. Samuel Coleridge to William Sotheby (13 July 1802)
  16. Samuel Coleridge to Robert Southey (July 1802)
  17. Samuel Coleridge to Thomas Poole (14 October 1803)

Appendix D: Commentary on Lyrical Ballads

  1. From Samuel Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817)
  2. From William Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance With Poets (1823)
  3. From William Wordsworth, Notes Dictated to Isabella Fenwick (1857)

Appendix E: The Dispersal of Lyrical Ballads into the CollectedWorks of Coleridge and Wordsworth

Appendix F: Prose Contemporaries

  1. From Joshua Reynolds, A Discourse, Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy (1771)
  2. From James Beattie, Essays: On Poetry and Music, as they Affect the Mind (1776)
  3. From Erasmus Darwin, Interlude I, The Botanic Garden (1789)
  4. From George Dyer, Complaints of the Poor People of England (1793)
  5. From Erasmus Darwin, Zooenomia; or,The Laws of Organic Life (1794-96)
  6. From Joanna Baillie, Introductory Discourse to A Series of Plays (1798-1812)
  7. From Mary Wollstonecraft, On Poetry (1798)
  8. From Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1800)

Appendix G: Verse Contemporaries

  1. From George Crabbe, The Village (1783)
  2. Charlotte Smith, Sonnet III:To a Nightingale (1784)
  3. From William Cowper, The Task (1785)
  4. Helen Maria Williams, To Sensibility (1786)
  5. [William Wordsworth], Sonnet on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress (1787)
  6. From Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1789)
  7. Gottfried August Burger, Lenora (1796)
  8. Charlotte Smith, Sonnet LXX: On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic (1797)
  9. Robert Southey, Inscription III. For a Cavern that overlooks the River Avon (1797)
  10. From Joanna Baillie, De Monfort, a Tragedy (1798-1812)
  11. Robert Southey, The Idiot (1798)
  12. Thomas Beddoes, Domiciliary Verses: December 1795 (1799)
  13. Robert Southey, The Mad Woman (1799)
  14. Robert Southey, English Eclogues: Eclogue IV: The Sailor's Mother (1799)
  15. Mary Robinson, The Haunted Beach (1800)

Appendix H: Mapping the Poems

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Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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