Lyrical Ballads - wikipedia Lyrical Ballads Title page of the first edition. Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A second edition was published in 1800, in which Wordsworth included additional poems and a preface detailing the pair 's avowed poetical principles. For another edition, published in 1802, Wordsworth added an appendix titled Poetic Diction in which he expanded the ideas set forth in the preface. Contents 1 Content 2 Poems in the 1800 edition 2.1 Volume I 2.2 Volume II 3 References 4 External links Content Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, learned and highly sculpted forms of 18th century English poetry and bring poetry within the reach of the average person by writing the verses using normal, everyday language. They place an emphasis on the vitality of the living voice that the poor use to express their reality. Using this language also helps assert the universality of human emotions. Even the title of the collection recalls rustic forms of art -- the word `` lyrical '' links the poems with the ancient rustic bards and lends an air of spontaneity, while `` ballads '' are an oral mode of storytelling used by the common people. In the ' Advertisement ' included in the 1798 edition, Wordsworth explained his poetical concept : The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure. If the experiment with vernacular language was not enough of a departure from the norm, the focus on simple, uneducated country people as the subject of poetry was a signal shift to modern literature. One of the main themes of `` Lyrical Ballads '' is the return to the original state of nature, in which people led a purer and more innocent existence. Wordsworth subscribed to Rousseau 's belief that humanity was essentially good but was corrupted by the influence of society. This may be linked with the sentiments spreading through Europe just prior to the French Revolution. Poems in the 1800 edition Poems marked ( Coleridge ) were written by Coleridge ; all other poems were written by Wordsworth. In first edition, 1798 there were 19 poems written by Wordsworth and 4 poems by Coleridge. Volume I Expostulation and Reply The Tables Turned ; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject Old Man Traveling ; Animal Tranquillity and 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 ( Coleridge ) Goody Blake and Harry Gill The Thorn We are Seven Anecdote for Fathers Lines written at a small distance from my House and sent me by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed The Female Vagrant The Dungeon ( Coleridge ) Simon Lee, the old Huntsman Lines written in early Spring The Nightingale, written in April 1798. ( Coleridge ) Lines written when sailing in a Boat at Evening written near Richmond, upon the Thames The Idiot Boy The Mad Mother The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( Coleridge ) Lines written above Tintern Abbey Volume II Hart - leap Well There was a Boy, &c The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle Strange fits of passion have I known, &c. Song She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways A slumber did my spirit seal, &c 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, &c. 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, &c. Song for the wandering Jew Ruth Lines written with a Slate - Pencil upon a Stone, &c. 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, &c. 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 A Fragment Poems on the Naming of Places, Michael, a Pastoral For the 1800 edition, Wordsworth added several poems which make up Volume II. The poem The Convict ( Wordsworth ) was in the 1798 edition but Wordsworth omitted it from the 1800 edition, replacing it with Coleridge 's `` Love ''. Lewti or the Circassian Love - chaunt ( Coleridge ) exists in some 1798 editions in place of The Convict. The poems `` Lines written when sailing in a Boat at evening '' and `` Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames '' are one poem in the 1798 edition entitled `` Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening. '' References Jump up ^ See Lyrical Ballads ( 1 ed. ). London : J. & A. Arch. 1798. Retrieved 13 November 2014. via archive.org Jump up ^ Wordsworth, William ( 1800 ). Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems. I ( 2 ed. ). London : Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees. Retrieved 13 November 2014. ; Wordsworth, William ( 1800 ). Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems. II ( 2 ed. ). London : Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees. Retrieved 15 November 2014. via archive.org Jump up ^ Wordsworth, William ( 1802 ). Lyrical Ballads with Pastoral and other Poems. I ( 3 ed. ). London : Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees. Retrieved 15 November 2014. via archive.org Jump up ^ `` Lyrical Ballads ''. The Wordsworth Trust. 2005. Archived from the original on 10 December 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2006. External links Wikisource has original text related to this article : Lyrical ballads Lyrical Ballads 1798 at Project Gutenberg Lyrical Ballads 1800 vol. 1 at Project Gutenberg Lyrical Ballads 1800 vol. 2 at Project Gutenberg Lyrical Ballads -- curated by Michigan State University professor Lyrical Ballads available at Internet Archive Preface to Lyrical Ballads 1802 Lyrical Ballads : A Scholarly Electronic Edition by Bruce Graver and Ron Tetreault William Wordsworth Topics Early life Lake Poets Lyrical Ballads Preface to the Lyrical Ballads `` Anecdote for Fathers '' `` The Idiot Boy '' `` Lucy Gray '' The Lucy poems `` She dwelt among the untrodden ways '' `` A slumber did my spirit seal '' `` Strange fits of passion have I known '' `` Three years she grew in sun and shower '' The Matthew poems `` Michael, a Pastoral '' `` Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey '' `` We Are Seven '' Later poetry Poems, in Two Volumes Peter Bell The White Doe of Rylstone `` Composed upon Westminster Bridge '' `` Elegiac Stanzas '' `` I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud '' The Lucy poems `` I travelled among unknown men '' `` London, 1802 '' `` Ode : Intimations of Immortality '' `` Resolution and Independence '' `` The Solitary Reaper '' `` The World Is Too Much with Us '' `` Character of the Happy Warrior '' The Recluse The Excursion The Prelude Prose Guide to the Lakes People Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Dora Wordsworth ( daughter ) Dorothy Wordsworth ( sister ) Places Alfoxton House Allan Bank Dove Cottage Rydal Mount Wordsworth House Samuel Taylor Coleridge Topics Early life Opium use Albatross metaphor Lake Poets Pantisocracy Coleridge 's theory of life Early poetry `` The Destruction of the Bastile '' `` Dura Navis '' `` Easter Holidays '' `` Monody on the Death of Chatterton '' `` On Quitting School '' `` Pain : Composed in Sickness '' `` Songs of the Pixies '' Plays The Fall of Robespierre Remorse ( Osorio ) Zapolya Cambridge and Bristol poetry The Destiny of Nations Lines on an Autumnal Evening Lines Written at Shurton Bars On Receiving an Account Ode on the Departing Year Religious Musings To a Young Ass To Fortune To the River Otter Eminent Characters `` To Erskine '' `` To Burke '' `` To Priestley '' `` To Fayette '' `` To Kosciusko '' `` To Pitt '' `` To Bowles '' `` To Mrs Siddons '' `` To Godwin '' `` To Southey '' `` To Sheridan '' `` To Lord Stanhope '' Conversation poems Dejection : An Ode The Eolian Harp Fears in Solitude Frost at Midnight The Nightingale : A Conversation Poem Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement This Lime - Tree Bower My Prison To William Wordsworth Late poetry and Lyrical Ballads Christabel `` France : An Ode '' `` Hymn Before Sunrise '' `` Kubla Khan '' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Biographical and other works Biographia Literaria The Watchman Notebooks Family Sara Coleridge ( daughter ) Derwent Coleridge ( son ) Hartley Coleridge ( son ) Christabel Rose Coleridge ( granddaughter ) Ernest Hartley Coleridge ( grandson ) Herbert Coleridge ( grandson ) James Coleridge ( brother ) Henry Nelson Coleridge ( nephew and son - in - law ) John Taylor Coleridge ( nephew ) Arthur Coleridge ( great - nephew ) Henry James Coleridge ( great - nephew ) John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge ( great - nephew ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lyrical_Ballads&oldid=837395121 '' Categories : 1798 books 1800 books 1802 books British poetry English poetry collections Poetry anthologies Works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Works by William Wordsworth Hidden categories : EngvarB from September 2013 Use dmy dates from September 2013 Articles with Project Gutenberg links Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikisource Français 한국어 Italiano Latina Magyar Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk nynorsk Polski Português Русский Svenska 5 more Edit links This page was last edited on 20 April 2018, at 15 : 13. 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Question: who wrote the preface to lyrical ballads 2nd edition
Answer: Wordsworth