It has come to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement. The second volume of the second edition added many of Wordsworth's most characteristic works, including the so‐called ‘Lucy poems’, ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’, and ‘Michael, a Pastoral’. The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802. The poems themselves, with their ‘low’ subjects and language and their alleged banality and repetitions, were subjected to much ridicule. Preface to The Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth sister projects: Wikidata item. They appeared with a brief ‘Advertisement’ by Wordsworth, stating his theory of poetic diction and attacking the ‘gaudy and inane phraseology of many modern writers’ his views were much expanded in his important preface to the second edition, and enlarged again in 1802. The Preface is therefore a justification of that theory and of the.

Coleridge's contributions to the first edition were The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ‘The Foster‐Mother's Tale’, ‘The Nightingale’, and ‘The Dungeon’ Wordsworth's include ballads and narratives such as ‘The Thorn’, ‘The Idiot Boy’, and ‘Simon Lee, the old Huntsman’, and more personal poems such as ‘Lines written in early spring’ and ‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey’. In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth wanted to express his theory of poetry. The book was a landmark of English Romanticism and the beginning of a new age. The second edition of 1800 contained Wordsworths famous Preface, which was to became the Manifesto of. A collection of poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge, of which the first edition appeared 1798, the second with new poems and a preface (known as the 1800 edition) Jan. Lyrical Ballads (1798), a collection of poems.

Preface of the lyrical ballads