The present edition provides the first comprehensive textual history from earliest manuscript to final lifetime printing of the poems published in the epochal L

Wordsworth’s process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Ba

Brings together scholars who use literary interpretation and discourse analysis to read 18th-century British philosophy in its historical context. This work ana

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 dir

The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond.