Publisher's Synopsis
This series aims to provide the student with accessible, annotated editions of key texts in English and American literature from the medieval to the modern period.;"Lyrical Ballads" is one of the most famous collections of English verse ever published. Written jointly by Wordsworth and Coleridge, these poets' ambitious aim was to create a radically new kind of verse, addressing the concerns of ordinary humanity in the language of ordinary humanity.;In addition to "The Ancient Mariner" and "Tintern Abbey", it includes such poems as "The Idiot Boy", "Nutting" and "Michael".;This book reproduces a slightly modernised form of the 1805 text (the last prepared by the poets), including, in full, the poets' comments on their work.
