2nd Edition

Lyrical Ballads

Edited By Michael Mason Copyright 2007
448 Pages
by Routledge

446 Pages
by Routledge

448 Pages
by Routledge

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a unique work of literature. first published in 1798, it marked a radical change in the direction of English Literature. Lyrical Ballads represented a movement away from the overwrought, highly formal and learned verse of the 18th century and in so doing ushered in a new, more democratic poetic era. Written in the language... Read more

General Introduction   Authors's Accompanying Statements   Lyrical Ballads   Arrangements and Classifications   Authors' later commment   Sources   1798 text of 'Ancient Mariner'

Biography

Daniel Karlin is Professor of English at the University of Sheffield. He is editor of the The Poems of Browning in the Longman Annotated English Poets series and the author of several books.

Michael Mason was Professor of English at University College London and the author of, among others, The Making of Victorian Sexuality (1995). He died in 2003.

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London and the author of numerous books. He is a regular pundit on The Late Review and a Guardian columnist.