Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings

by Wordsworth, William; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Richey, William; Robinson, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780618107322
• ISBN10: 0618107320
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-26
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

In addition to the complete 1798 London edition of Lyrical Ballads, this volume contains a generous sampling of ballads, rustic and humanitarian poetry, and nature poems by the poets' contemporaries; literary, philosophical, and political backgrounds by essayists such as Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Wollstonecraft; and reactions to Lyrical Ballads.

Table of Contents

About This Series	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
A Note on the Texts	9	(2)
Part One: LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS	11	(106)
``Advertisement''	21	(2)
``The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts''	23	(20)
``The Foster-Mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment''	43	(2)
``Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Which Stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect''	45	(2)
``The Nightingale: A Conversational Poem, Written in April 1798''	47	(4)
``The Female Vagrant''	51	(8)
``Goody Blake and Harry Gill: A True Story''	59	(4)
``Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House, and Sent by My Little Boy to the Person to Whom They Are Addressed''	63	(1)
``Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman, with an Incident in Which He Was Concerned''	64	(4)
``Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing How the Art of Lying May Be Taught''	68	(2)
``We Are Seven''	70	(2)
``Lines Written in Early Spring''	72	(1)
``The Thorn''	73	(8)
``The Last of the Flock''	81	(3)
``The Dungeon''	84	(1)
``The Mad Mother''	85	(3)
``The Idiot Boy''	88	(13)
``Lines Written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening''	101	(2)
``Expostulation and Reply''	103	(1)
``The Tables Turned: An Evening Scene, on the Same Subject''	104	(1)
``Old Man Travelling: Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch''	105	(1)
``The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman''	106	(2)
``The Convict''	108	(2)
``Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798''	110	(7)
Part Two: CONTEXTS FOR LYRICAL BALLADS	117	(2)
Literary and Philosophical Backgrounds	119	(48)
``Ode I. To Fancy''	125	(4)
Joseph Warton
Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations	129	(3)
David Hartley
The Theory of Moral Sentiments	132	(5)
Adam Smith
A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind	137	(3)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emilius and Sophia, or A New System of Education	140	(3)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
``Sonnet I''	143	(1)
Charlotte Smith
``Sonnet II. Written at the Close of Spring''	144	(1)
Charlotte Smith
``Sonnet IV. To the Moon''	144	(1)
Charlotte Smith
The Task: A Poem in Six Books	145	(4)
William Cowper
``To Sensibility''	149	(2)
Helen Maria Williams
``Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress''	151	(1)
William Wordsworth
``Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex''	152	(1)
Charlotte Smith
``To Anna Matilda''	153	(3)
Della Crusca
Robert Merry
``Effusion XXXV. Composed August 20th, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire''	156	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
``Sonnet LXX. On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic''	158	(1)
Charlotte Smith
A Series of Plays	159	(8)
Joanna Baillie
Political Backgrounds	167	(44)
A Dissertation on the Poor Laws	176	(2)
Joseph Townsend
Thoughts on the Importance of Manners of the Great to General Society	178	(2)
Hannah More
A Vindication of the Rights of Men	180	(7)
Mary Wollstonecraft
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice	187	(7)
William Godwin
The Complaints of the Poor People of England	194	(3)
George Dyer
``The Old Peasant''	197	(2)
John Thelwall
``The Benevolence''	199	(2)
John Thelwall
Thoughts and Details On Scarcity	201	(3)
Edmund Burke
``Outline Of a Work Entitled `Pauper Management Improved'''	204	(7)
Jeremy Bentham
Fears in Solitude and Other Political Writings by Coleridge	211	(25)
From Letter to Robert Southey	214	(1)
``Address to a Young Jack-Ass, and Its Tether'd Mother, in Familiar Verse''	214	(2)
From Conciones ad Populum, or Addresses to the People	216	(3)
``Remonstrance to the French Legislators''	219	(4)
``Fears in Solitude''	223	(6)
``France: An Ode''	229	(4)
``Frost at Midnight''	233	(3)
The Ballad Revival	236	(36)
Anonymous ``The Wandering Jew''	242	(4)
Anonymous ``Barbara Allen's Cruelty''	246	(2)
``The Storm-Beat Maid''	248	(5)
Joanna Baillie
``Lenora, A Ballad''	253	(8)
Gottfried August Burger
``The Lass of Fair Wone''	261	(6)
Gottfried August Burger
``Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine''	267	(3)
M. G. Lewis
``Conscience the Worst of Tortures''	270	(2)
Fanny Holcroft
Rustic and Humanitarian Poetry	272	(48)
The Village: A Poem in Two Books	275	(8)
George Crabbe
The Task: A Poem in Six Books	283	(1)
William Cowper
Anonymous ``The Happy Cottage''	284	(1)
``Tam o' Shanter: A Tale''	285	(9)
Robert Burns
Anonymous ``The Beggar's Petition''	294	(2)
Anonymous ``The Beggar Boy''	296	(1)
``Patient Joe, or the Newcastle Collier''	297	(2)
Hannah More
Anonymous ``The Story of Sinful Sally, Told by Herself''	299	(5)
``The Widow''	304	(1)
Robert Southey
``Hannah: A Plaintive Tale''	305	(2)
Robert Southey
``The Idiot''	307	(2)
Robert Southey
The Anti-Jacobin	309	(3)
George Canning
John Hookham Frere
``The Dead Beggar''	312	(2)
Charlotte Smith
``The Old Cumberland Beggar: A Description''	314	(6)
William Wordsworth
Nature	320	(29)
Coopers Hill	324	(7)
John Denham
``Sonnet IX. TO the River Lodon''	331	(1)
Thomas Warton
Observations on the River Wye	332	(4)
William Gilpin
``Sonnet III. To a Nightingale''	336	(1)
Charlotte Smith
Lewesdon Hill: A Poem	337	(4)
William Crowe
``Sonnet II''	341	(1)
William Lisle Bowles
``Sonnet IX. To the River Itchin, near Winton''	342	(1)
William Lisle Bowles
``Sonnet XIX. Netley Abbey''	342	(1)
William Lisle Bowles
``Effusion XXIII. To the Nightingale''	343	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
``Sonnet IV. To the River Otter''	344	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
``Lewti, or the Circassian's Love Chant''	345	(3)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
``Sonnet Written in Tintern Abbey Monmouthshire''	348	(1)
Edward Gardner
Part Three: REACTIONS TO LYRICAL BALLADS	349	(2)
Contemporary Reviews	351	(14)
The Critical Review	352	(2)
Robert Southey
Anonymous From the New London Review	354	(3)
The Monthly Review	357	(5)
Charles Burney
Anonymous From the British Critic	362	(3)
Poetic Responses	365	(19)
``The Sailor, Who Had Served in the Slave Trade''	368	(4)
Robert Southey
``The Mad Woman''	372	(2)
Robert Southey
``The Poor, Singing Dame''	374	(2)
Mary Robinson
``The Haunted Beach''	376	(2)
Mary Robinson
Anonymous ``Barham-Downs, or Goody Grizzle and Her Ass''	378	(4)
The Simpliciad	382	(2)
Richard Mant
Reactions of Wordsworth and Coleridge	384	(61)
``Note to `The Thorn'''	387	(2)
William Wordsworth
``Note to `The Ancient Mariner'''	389	(1)
William Wordsworth
``Preface [to Lyrical Ballads (1802)]''	390	(22)
William Wordsworth
``Appendix (Poetic Diction)''	412	(4)
William Wordsworth
Biographia Literaria, or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions	416	(7)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
``The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''	423	(19)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
``Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman, with an Incident in Which He Was Concerned''	442	(3)
William Wordsworth
Chronology	445	(4)
Works Cited	449	(6)
For Further Reading	455