Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition (published in January 1801, and often referred to as the "1800 Edition") of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802.

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William Wordsworth Topics Early life Lake Poets People Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Dora Wordsworth (daughter) Dorothy Wordsworth (sister) Lyrical Ballads Preface to the Lyrical Ballads "Anecdote for Fathers" "Lucy Gray" The Lucy poems "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" "A slumber did my spirit seal" "Strange fits of passion have I known" "Three years she grew in sun and shower" The Matthew poems "Michael, a Pastoral" "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" "We Are Seven" Later poetry Poems, in Two Volumes Peter Bell The White Doe of Rylstone "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" "Elegiac Stanzas" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" The Lucy poems "I travelled among unknown men" "London, 1802" "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" "Resolution and Independence" "The Solitary Reaper" "The World Is Too Much with Us" "Character of the Happy Warrior" The Recluse The Excursion The Prelude Commons Wikiquote Wikisource texts