LYRICAL BALLADS 1798 AND 1800

William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge

edited by Michael Gamer and Dahlia Porter

Contents Acknowledgements • 11 Abbreviations • 12 Illustrations • 13 Introduction • 15 William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge: A Chronology • 38 A Note on the Text • 44 Lyrical Ballads, 1798 Edition • 45 Advertisement • 47 "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" • 49 "The Foster-Mother's Tale, A Dramatic Fragment" • 73 "Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite" • 76 "The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem, Written in April, 1798" • 78 "The Female Vagrant" • 81 "Goody Blake, and Harry Gill, A True Story" • 89 "Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the person to whom they are addressed" • 93 "Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman" • 95 "Anecdote for Fathers" • 98 "We Are Seven" • 100 "Lines Written in Early Spring" • 102 "The Thorn" • 103 "The Last of the Flock" ' 1 1 1 "The Dungeon" • 113 "The Mad Mother" • 114 "The Idiot Boy" • 118 "Lines Written Near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening" • 133 "Expostulation and Reply" • 134 "The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject" • 136 "Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A ' Sketch" • 137 "The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman" • 138 "The Convict" • 140 "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798" • 142

Reviews of the 1798 Edition • 148 1. [Robert Southey], Critical Review (October 1798) • 148 2. Monthly Mirror (October 1798) • 150 3. Analytical Review (December 1798) • 150 4. New Annual Register for 1798 (1799) • 151 5. Monthly Magazine January 1799) • 152 6. New London Review (January 1799) • 152 7. [Charles Burney], Monthly Review (June 1799) • 156 8. The British Critic (October 1799) • 162 9. Naval Chronicle (October and November 1799) • 164 10. Antijacobin Review (April 1800) • 165 11. [Daniel Stuart], Morning Post (April 1800) • 166 12. [Daniel Stuart], Courier (April 1800) • 166 13. [Daniel Stuart], Courier (June 1800) • 166 14. Portfolio January 1801) • 167 Lyrical Ballads, 1800 Edition • 169 Volume I • 170 Preface • 171 "Expostulation and Reply" • 188 "The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject" • 189 "Animal Tranquillity & Decay, a Sketch" • 190 "The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman" • 191 "The Last of the Flock" • 193 "Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite" • 196 "The Foster-Mother's Tale, A Narration in Dramatic Blank Verse" • 198 "Goody Blake & Harry Gill, A True Story" • 201 "The Thorn" • 205 "We Are Seven" - 2 1 3 "Anecdote for Fathers" • 215 "Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed" • 217 "The Female Vagrant" • 218 "The Dungeon" • 227 "Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman" • 228 "Lines Written in early Spring" • 231 "The Nightingale, Written in April, 1798" • 231 "Lines Written when sailing in a Boat at Evening" • 235 "Lines Written near Richmond upon the Thames" • 236 "The Idiot Boy" • 238

"Love" • 253 "The Mad Mother" • 256 "The Ancient Mariner, A Poet's Reverie" • 259 "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798" • 282 Notes • 287 Volume II «291 "Hart-Leap Well" • 293 "There was a Boy" • 299 "The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem" • 300 "Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle" • 315 "Strange fits of passion I have known" • 316 "Song" • 317 "A slumber did my spirit seal" • 318 "The Waterfall and the Eglantine" • 318 "The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral" • 320 "Lucy Gray" • 323 "The Idle Shepherd-Boys, or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral" • 325 '"Tis said, that some have died for love" • 328 "Poor Susan" • 330 "Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water" • 331 "Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere" • 332 "To a Sexton" • 333 "Andrew Jones" • 334 "The Two Thieves, or the last Stage of Avarice" • 335 "A whirl-blast from behind the hill" • 337 "Song for the Wandering Jew" • 338 "Ruth" • 339 "Lines Written with a Slate-pencil upon a Stone" • 348 "Lines Written on a Tablet in a School" • 349 "The Two April Mornings" • 350 "The Fountain, a Conversation" • 352 "Nutting" • 354 "Three years she grew in sun and shower" • 356 "The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral" • 357 "Written in Germany, On one of the coldest days of the Century" • 359 "The Childless Father" • 361 "The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description" • 362 "Rural Architecture" • 368 "A Poet's Epitaph" • 369

"A Character, in the antithetical Manner" • 371 "A Fragment" - 3 7 1 "Poems on the Naming of Places" • 374 "Michael, a Pastoral Poem" • 385 Notes • 398 Reviews of the 1800 Edition • 400 1. [John Stoddard], The British Critic (February 1801) • 400 2. Monthly Mirror Qune 1801) • 405 3. Portfolio Qune 1801) • 406 4. Portfolio (December 1801) • 407 5. American Review and Literary Journal (January 1802) • 407 6. Monthly Review Qune 1802) • 408 7. [Francis Jeffrey], Edinburgh Review (October 1802) • 409 8. Edinburgh Magazine (July 1803) • 417 Appendix A: Additions to the 1802 Edition of Lyrical Ballads • 419 1. William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads with Pastoral and other Poems (1802) • 419 2. William Wordsworth, "Appendix:—by what is usually called Poetic Diction" (1802) • 425 Appendix B: Poems by Coleridge Originally Intended for Lyrical Ballads • 430 1. "Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chant" • 431 2. "Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie" • 433 3. "Christabel" • 434 Appendix C: Correspondence about Lyrical Ballads • 453 1. Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (8 June 1797) • 453 2. Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (ca. 3 July 1797) • 454 3. Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson (ca. June 1797) • 454 4. Samuel Coleridge to Joseph Cottle (13 March 1798) • 455 5. Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (ca. 28 May 1798) • 456 6. William Wordsworth to Joseph Cottle (2 June 1799) • 457 7. Dorothy Wordsworth to Mrs. John Marshall (10 and 12 September 1800) • 458 8. Samuel Coleridge to Humphry Davy (9 October 1800) • 459 9. William Wordsworth to Charles James Fox (14 January 1801) • 459 10. Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth (30 January 1801) • 461

11. Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning (15 February 1801) • 463 12. William Wordsworth to Samuel Coleridge (early March 1801) • 464 13. Charles James Fox to William Wordsworth (25 May 1801) • 465 14. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Bedford (19 August 1801) • 465 15. Samuel Coleridge to William Sotheby (13 July 1802) • 466 16. Samuel Coleridge to Robert Southey Quly 1802) • 466 17. Samuel Coleridge to Thomas Poole (14 October 1803) • 467 Appendix D: Commentary on Lyrical Ballads • 469 1. From Samuel Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817) • 469 2. From William Hazlitt, "My First Acquaintance With Poets" (1823) • 475 3. From William Wordsworth, Notes Dictated to Isabella Fenwick (1857) • 481 Appendix E: The Dispersal of Lyrical Ballads into the Collected Works of Coleridge and Wordsworth • 487 Appendix F: Prose Contemporaries • 493 1. From Joshua Reynolds, A Discourse, Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy (1771) • 493 2. From James Beattie, Essays: On Poetry and Music, as they Affect the Mind (1776) • 495 3. From Erasmus Darwin, "Interlude I," The Botanic Garden (1789) • 496 4. From George Dyer, Complaints of the Poor People of England (1793) • 498 5. From Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794-96) • 500 6. From Joanna Baillie, "Introductory Discourse" to A Series of Plays (1798-1812) • 500 7. From Mary Wollstonecraft, "On Poetry" (1798) • 502 8. From Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1800) • 504 Appendix G: Verse Contemporaries • 506 1. From George Crabbe, TheVillage (1783) • 506 2. Charlotte Smith, "Sonnet III: To a Nightingale" (1784) • 509 3. From William Cowper, TheTask (1785) • 509 4. Helen Maria Williams, "To Sensibility" (1786) • 512

5. [William Wordsworth], "Sonnet on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress" (1787) • 514 6. From Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1789) • 515 7. Gottfried August Burger, "Lenora" (1796) • 517 8. Charlotte Smith, "Sonnet LXX: On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic" (1797) • 525 9. Robert Southey, "Inscription III. For a Cavern that overlooks the River Avon" (1797) • 526 10. From Joanna Baillie, De Monfort, a Tragedy (17981812) • 526 11. Robert Southey, "The Idiot" (1798) • 527 12. Thomas Beddoes, "Domiciliary Verses: December 1795" (1799) • 529 13. Robert Southey, "The MadWoman" (1799) • 530 14. Robert Southey, "English Eclogues: Eclogue IV: The Sailor's Mother" (1799) • 532 15. Mary Robinson, "The Haunted Beach" (1800) • 537 Appendix H: Mapping the Poems • 540 Select Bibliography • 546