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    Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1802

    by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fiona Stafford

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    Fiona Stafford has written widely on Romantic literature. Her books include Reading Romantic Poetry (Wiley Blackwell, 2012), and Local Attachments: the Province of Poetry (Oxford, 2010). She has edited Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for Oxford World's Classics.

    Table of Contents

    Abbreviations xi

    Introduction xiii

    Note on the Text xlvi

    Select Bibliography xlvii

    A Chronology of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge li

    Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems, 1798

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    The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere 5

    The Foster-Mother's Tale 25

    Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite 27

    The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem 29

    The Female Vagrant 32

    Goody Blake and Harry Gill 39

    Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed 43

    Simon Lee, the old Huntsman 44

    Anecdote for Fathers 47

    We are Seven 49

    Lines written in early spring 51

    The Thorn 52

    The Last of the Flock 59

    The Dungeon 62

    The Mad Mother 63

    The Idiot Boy 66

    Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening 79

    Expostulation and Reply 80

    The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject 81

    Old Man travelling 82

    The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman 83

    The Convict 85

    Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey 87

    Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, 1802

    Vol. I

    Preface 95

    Expostulation and Reply 117

    The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject 118

    Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch 119

    Goody Blake and Harry Gill 119

    The Last of the Flock 123

    Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite 126

    The Foster-Mother's Tale 128

    The Thorn 129

    We are Seven 137

    Anecdote for Fathers 139

    Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed 141

    The Female Vagrant 142

    Lines written in early Spring 149

    Simon Lee, the old Huntsman 150

    The Nightingale, written in April, 1798 153

    The Idiot Boy 156

    Love 169

    The Mad Mother 172

    The Ancient Mariner 175

    Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey 193

    Wordsworth's Endnotes 199

    Vol. II

    Hart-leap Well 203

    There was a Boy 208

    The Brothers 209

    Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle 222

    Strange fits of passion I have known 223

    She dwelt among th' untrodden ways 224

    A slumber did my spirit seal 225

    The Waterfall and the Eglantine 225

    The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral 227

    The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman 230

    Lucy Gray 232

    'Tis said that some have died for Love 234

    The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral 235

    Poor Susan 238

    Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water 239

    Lines written with a Pencil upon a stone in the wall of the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere 240

    To a Sexton 240

    Andrew Jones 241

    Ruth 242

    Lines written with a Slate-Pencil 250

    Lines written on a Tablet in a School 251

    The Two April Mornings 252

    The Fountain, a Conversation 254

    Nutting 256

    Three years she grew in sun and shower 258

    The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral 259

    Written in Germany, on one of the coldest days of the Century 262

    The Childless Father 263

    The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description 264

    Rural Architecture 269

    A Poet's Epitaph 270

    A Fragment 271

    Poems on the Naming of Places 273

    Lines written when sailing in a Boat at Evening 280

    Remembrance of Collins, written upon the Thames, near Richmond 281

    The Two Thieves, or the last stage of Avarice 282

    A whirl-blast from behind the Hill 283

    Song for the Wandering Jew 284

    Michael, a Pastoral Poem 285

    Appendix. 'What is usually called Poetic Diction' 298

    Wordsworth's Endnotes 302

    Appendix 1 Coleridge's Marginal Glosses to 'The Ancient Mariner', 1817 303

    Appendix 2 Wordsworth's Letter to Charles James Fox, 14 January 1801 306

    Appendix 3 John Wilson's Letter to Wordsworth, 24 May 1802 310

    Appendix 4 Wordsworth's Letter to John Wilson, 7 June 1802 316

    Explanatory Notes 323

    Index of Titles and First Lines 367

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    'Listen, Stranger!'

    Wordsworth and Coleridge's 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. Wordsworth's 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 Wordsworth's 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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