It additionally gives a framework for the circumstances in which the volumes were published.

These editions provide insight into Wordsworth’s intentional placement of poems. These items are held in the Armstrong Browning Rare Books collection. This post will examine and describe the significance of the rare items, Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798), First edition (second issue) and Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, in two volumes (1800). Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, in two volumes (1800) Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (first edition, second issue 1798) Ashley VIII, pp.6-9 Barker, Wordsworth: A Life in Letters (2005), passim Hayward 202 PMM 256 Rothschild 2603 Wise Wordsworth 5.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Eliot wrote, 'Wordsworth is really the first, in the unsettled state of affairs in his time, to annex new authority for the poet, to meddle with social affairs, and to offer a new kind of religious sentiment which it seemed the peculiar prerogative of the poet to interpret' ( The Uses of Poetry and the Use of Criticism). For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.' His 'outline of the supreme function of poetry, expressed in such phrases that poetry 'takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity', set a new tone and it became in effect the revolutionary manifesto of the romantic poets of the next generation' (PMM 256). In it, Wordsworth reacts against the stultification and artificiality of late 18th-century verse and builds a poetics meant 'to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature.

Wordsworth's revolutionary Preface became the manifesto of Romantic poets. The second volume is entirely new, and contains 41 new poems. Second edition, and best: comprising the poems of the 1798 edition with one addition and with Wordsworth's celebrated 40-page preface, PRINTED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME. Watson in memory of Ann Gillman quae obit August 4th 1860) half morocco folding case. Provenance: Charles Bathurst (signature dated 1801 on title) Anne Gillman (signature on title) Penelope Watson (name in ink on lower sheet edges, inscription on flyleaf: 'Penelope Anne R. Contemporary mottled calf, front cover with central gilt palm tree stamp, smooth spine gilt (some light wear and rubbing).

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