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
- [Robert Southey], Critical Review (October 1798)
- Monthly Mirror (October 1798)
- Analytical Review (December 1798)
- New Annual Register for 1798 (1799)
- Monthly Magazine (January 1799)
- New London Review (January 1799)
- [Charles Burney], Monthly Review (June 1799)
- The British Critic (October 1799)
- Naval Chronicle (October and November 1799)
- Antijacobin Review (April 1800)
- [Daniel Stuart], Morning Post (April 1800)
- [Daniel Stuart], Courier (April 1800)
- [Daniel Stuart], Courier (June 1800)
- 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
- [John Stoddard], The British Critic (February 1801)
- Monthly Mirror (June 1801)
- Portfolio (June 1801)
- Portfolio (December 1801)
- American Review and Literary Journal (January 1802)
- Monthly Review (June 1802)
- [Francis Jeffrey], Edinburgh Review (October 1802)
- Edinburgh Magazine (July 1803)
Appendix A: Additions to the 1802 Edition of Lyrical Ballads
- William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads with Pastoral and other Poems (1802)
- William Wordsworth, Appendix:-by what is usually called Poetic Diction (1802)
Appendix B: Poems by Coleridge Originally Intended for Lyrical Ballads
- Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chant
- Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie
- Christabel
Appendix C: Correspondence about Lyrical Ballads
- Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (8 June 1797)
- Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (ca. 3 July 1797)
- Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson (ca. June 1797)
- Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (13 March 1798)
- Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (ca. 28 May 1798)
- William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (2 June 1799)
- Dorothy Wordsworth to Mrs. John Marshall (10 and 12 September 1800)
- Samuel Coleridge to Humphry Davy (9 October 1800)
- William Wordsworth to Charles James Fox (14 January 1801)
- Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth (30 January 1801)
- Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning (15 February 1801)
- William Wordsworth to Samuel Coleridge (early March 1801)
- Charles James Fox to William Wordsworth (25 May 1801)
- Robert Southey to Grosvenor Bedford (19 August 1801)
- Samuel Coleridge to William Sotheby (13 July 1802)
- Samuel Coleridge to Robert Southey (July 1802)
- Samuel Coleridge to Thomas Poole (14 October 1803)
Appendix D: Commentary on Lyrical Ballads
- From Samuel Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817)
- From William Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance With Poets (1823)
- 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
- From Joshua Reynolds, A Discourse, Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy (1771)
- From James Beattie, Essays: On Poetry and Music, as they Affect the Mind (1776)
- From Erasmus Darwin, Interlude I, The Botanic Garden (1789)
- From George Dyer, Complaints of the Poor People of England (1793)
- From Erasmus Darwin, Zooenomia; or,The Laws of Organic Life (1794-96)
- From Joanna Baillie, Introductory Discourse to A Series of Plays (1798-1812)
- From Mary Wollstonecraft, On Poetry (1798)
- From Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1800)
Appendix G: Verse Contemporaries
- From George Crabbe, The Village (1783)
- Charlotte Smith, Sonnet III:To a Nightingale (1784)
- From William Cowper, The Task (1785)
- Helen Maria Williams, To Sensibility (1786)
- [William Wordsworth], Sonnet on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress (1787)
- From Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1789)
- Gottfried August Burger, Lenora (1796)
- Charlotte Smith, Sonnet LXX: On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic (1797)
- Robert Southey, Inscription III. For a Cavern that overlooks the River Avon (1797)
- From Joanna Baillie, De Monfort, a Tragedy (1798-1812)
- Robert Southey, The Idiot (1798)
- Thomas Beddoes, Domiciliary Verses: December 1795 (1799)
- Robert Southey, The Mad Woman (1799)
- Robert Southey, English Eclogues: Eclogue IV: The Sailor's Mother (1799)
- Mary Robinson, The Haunted Beach (1800)
Appendix H: Mapping the Poems
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