Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
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The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth
for the second edition (published in January 1801, and often referred to as the "1800 Edition") of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads
, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
for the second edition (published in January 1801, and often referred to as the "1800 Edition") of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads
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...
, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802.