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Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, of which the first edition appeared 1798 the second with new poems and a preface (known as the 1800 edition) January 1801, and a third in 1802. The book is a landmark of English Romanticism. Coleridge’s contributions to the first edition were The Rim of the Ancient Mariner, ( An ancient mariner meets three gallants on their way to a marriage feast, and stops one of them in order to tell his story.)The Foster-Mother’s Tale’, ‘The Nightingale’, and ‘The Dungeon’; Wordsworth’s included ballads and narratives such as ‘The Thorn’, ‘The Idiot Boy’,( One of the most characteristic and controversial of the poet’s early works, it takes as hero the idiot son of a poor countrywoman. The boy’s description of a night-time journey) 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’(It is a central statement of Wordsworth’s faith in the restorative and associative power of nature).
They appeared with a brief ‘Advertisement’ by Wordsworth, stating his theory of poetic diction;( A term used to mean vocabulary and usage peculiar to poetry, which came into prominence with William Wordsworth’s discussion in his preface) his views were expanded in his important preface to the second edition, and again in 1802. The poems themselves, with their ‘low’ subjects and language and their alleged banality and repetitions, were much ridiculed. 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 Lucy Poems were a group of poems by William Wordsworth. ‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways’ and ‘Strange fits of passion have known’ were sent to S. T. Coleridge in a letter, as was ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’; ‘Three years she grew in sun and shower’ was written a little later, in the spring. All four were published in the Lyrical Ballads of 1800. A fifth poem, ‘I travelled among unknown men’, was sent in a letter i 1801 to Mary Hutchinson (later Wordsworth’s wife), and published in 1807. The poems are remarkable for their lyric intensity and purity, and the identity of Lucy has aroused much speculation.)
They appeared with a brief ‘Advertisement’ by Wordsworth, stating his theory of poetic diction;( A term used to mean vocabulary and usage peculiar to poetry, which came into prominence with William Wordsworth’s discussion in his preface) his views were expanded in his important preface to the second edition, and again in 1802. The poems themselves, with their ‘low’ subjects and language and their alleged banality and repetitions, were much ridiculed. 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 Lucy Poems were a group of poems by William Wordsworth. ‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways’ and ‘Strange fits of passion have known’ were sent to S. T. Coleridge in a letter, as was ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’; ‘Three years she grew in sun and shower’ was written a little later, in the spring. All four were published in the Lyrical Ballads of 1800. A fifth poem, ‘I travelled among unknown men’, was sent in a letter i 1801 to Mary Hutchinson (later Wordsworth’s wife), and published in 1807. The poems are remarkable for their lyric intensity and purity, and the identity of Lucy has aroused much speculation.)