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Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800 a-front.qxd 08/07/2008 3:05 PM Page 1 This electronic material is under copyright protection and is provided to a single recipient for review purposes only. LYRICAL BALLADS 1798 AND 1800 A First Modern English Edition of Les Évangiles des Quenouilles broadview editions series editor: L.W. Conolly THE DISTAFF GOSPELS 1 a-front.qxd 08/07/2008 3:05 PM Page 2 Review Copy 2 THE DISTAFF GOSPELS a-front.qxd 08/07/2008 3:05 PM Page 3 Review Copy LYRICAL BALLADS 1798 AND 1800 William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge Les Évangiles des Quenouilles translated by Thomas K.Abbott with revisions by Lara Denis edited by Michael Gamer and Dahlia Porter broadview editions THE DISTAFF GOSPELS 3 a-front.qxd 08/07/2008 3:05 PM Page 4 Review Copy ©2008 Michael Gamer and Dahlia Porter All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other- wise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher— or in the case of photocopying, a licence from Access Copyright (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), One Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, Ontario M5E 1E5—is an infringement of the copyright law. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Lyrical ballads : 1798 and 1800 / William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge ; edited by Michael Gamer and Dahlia Porter. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-55111-600-6 1. English poetry—18th century. 2. English poetry—19th century. I. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834 II. Gamer, Michael III. Porter, Dahlia IV. Title. 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PRINTED IN CANADA a-front.qxd 08/07/2008 3:05 PM Page 5 Review Copy Contents Acknowledgements • 11 Abbreviations • 12 Illustrations • 13 Introduction • 15 William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge: A Chronology • 38 A Note on the Text • 44 Lyrical Ballads, 1798 Edition • 45 Advertisement • 47 “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere” • 49 “The Foster-Mother’s Tale, A Dramatic Fragment” • 73 “Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite” • 76 “The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem, Written in April, 1798” • 78 “The Female Vagrant” • 81 “Goody Blake, and Harry Gill, A True Story” • 89 “Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the person to whom they are addressed” • 93 “Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman” • 95 “Anecdote for Fathers” • 98 “We Are Seven” • 100 “Lines Written in Early Spring” • 102 “The Thorn” • 103 “The Last of the Flock” • 111 “The Dungeon” • 113 “The Mad Mother” • 114 “The Idiot Boy” • 118 “Lines Written Near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening” • 133 “Expostulation and Reply” • 134 “The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject” • 136 “Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch” • 137 “The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman” • 138 “The Convict” • 140 “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798” • 142 a-front.qxd 08/07/2008 3:05 PM Page 6 Review Copy Reviews of the 1798 Edition • 148 1. [Robert Southey], Critical Review (October 1798) • 148 2. Monthly Mirror (October 1798) • 150 3. Analytical Review (December 1798) • 150 4. New Annual Register for 1798 (1799) • 151 5. Monthly Magazine (January 1799) • 152 6. New London Review (January 1799) • 152 7. [Charles Burney], Monthly Review (June 1799) • 156 8. The British Critic (October 1799) • 162 9. Naval Chronicle (October and November 1799) • 164 10. Antijacobin Review (April 1800) • 165 11. [Daniel Stuart], Morning Post (April 1800) • 166 12. [Daniel Stuart], Courier (April 1800) • 166 13. [Daniel Stuart], Courier (June 1800) • 166 14. Portfolio (January 1801) • 167 Lyrical Ballads, 1800 Edition • 169 Volume I • 170 Preface • 171 “Expostulation and Reply” • 188 “The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject” • 189 “Animal Tranquillity & Decay, a Sketch” • 190 “The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman” • 191 “The Last of the Flock” • 193 “Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite” • 196 “The Foster-Mother’s Tale, A Narration in Dramatic Blank Verse” • 198 “Goody Blake & Harry Gill, A True Story” • 201 “The Thorn” • 205 “We Are Seven” • 213 “Anecdote for Fathers” • 215 “Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed” • 217 “The Female Vagrant” • 218 “The Dungeon” • 227 “Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman” • 228 “Lines Written in early Spring” • 231 “The Nightingale, Written in April, 1798” • 231 “Lines Written when sailing in a Boat at Evening” • 235 “Lines Written near Richmond upon the Thames” • 236 “The Idiot Boy” • 238 6 CONTENTS a-front.qxd 08/07/2008 3:05 PM Page 7 Review Copy “Love” • 253 “The Mad Mother” • 256 “The Ancient Mariner, A Poet’s Reverie” • 259 “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798” • 282 Notes • 287 Volume II • 291 “Hart-Leap Well” • 293 “There was a Boy” • 299 “The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem” • 300 “Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle” • 315 “Strange fits of passion I have known” • 316 “Song” • 317 “A slumber did my spirit seal” • 318 “The Waterfall and the Eglantine” • 318 “The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral” • 320 “Lucy Gray” • 323 “The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral” • 325 “’Tis said, that some have died for love” • 328 “Poor Susan” • 330 “Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert’s Island, Derwent-Water” • 331 “Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere” • 332 “To a Sexton” • 333 “Andrew Jones” • 334 “The Two Thieves, or the last Stage of Avarice” • 335 “A whirl-blast from behind the hill” • 337 “Song for the Wandering Jew” • 338 “Ruth” • 339 “Lines Written with a Slate-pencil upon a Stone” • 348 “Lines Written on a Tablet in a School” • 349 “The Two April Mornings” • 350 “The Fountain, a Conversation” • 352 “Nutting” • 354 “Three years she grew in sun and shower” • 356 “The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral” • 357 “Written in Germany, On one of the coldest days of the Century” • 359 “The Childless Father” • 361 “The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description” • 362 “Rural Architecture” • 368 “A Poet’s Epitaph” • 369 LYRICAL BALLADS 7 a-front.qxd 08/07/2008 3:05 PM Page 8 Review Copy “A Character, in the antithetical Manner” • 371 “A Fragment” • 371 “Poems on the Naming of Places” • 374 “Michael, a Pastoral Poem” • 385 Notes • 398 Reviews of the 1800 Edition • 400 1. [John Stoddard], The British Critic (February 1801) • 400 2. Monthly Mirror (June 1801) • 405 3. Portfolio (June 1801) • 406 4. Portfolio (December 1801) • 407 5. American Review and Literary Journal (January 1802) • 407 6. Monthly Review (June 1802) • 408 7. [Francis Jeffrey], Edinburgh Review (October 1802) • 409 8. Edinburgh Magazine (July 1803) • 417 Appendix A: Additions to the 1802 Edition of Lyrical Ballads • 419 1. William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads with Pastoral and other Poems (1802) • 419 2. William Wordsworth, “Appendix:—by what is usually called Poetic Diction” (1802) • 425 Appendix B: Poems by Coleridge Originally Intended for Lyrical Ballads • 430 1. “Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chant” • 431 2. “Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie” • 433 3. “Christabel” • 434 Appendix C: Correspondence about Lyrical Ballads • 453 1. Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (8 June 1797) • 453 2. Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (ca. 3 July 1797) • 454 3. Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson (ca. June 1797) • 454 4. Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (13 March 1798) • 455 5. Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (ca. 28 May 1798) • 456 6. William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (2 June 1799) • 457 7. Dorothy Wordsworth to Mrs. John Marshall (10 and 12 September 1800) • 458 8. Samuel Coleridge to Humphry Davy (9 October 1800) • 459 9. William Wordsworth to Charles James Fox (14 January 1801) • 459 10. Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth (30 January 1801) • 461 8 CONTENTS a-front.qxd 08/07/2008 3:05 PM Page 9 Review Copy 11. Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning (15 February 1801) • 463 12. William Wordsworth to Samuel Coleridge (early March 1801) • 464 13. Charles James Fox to William Wordsworth (25 May 1801) • 465 14.
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