The Historical Development of Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads has a complex publication history.  Notice that the above title page of the first edition lacks the names of its authors.  As we'll discuss in class today, the subsequent editions are not so coy.  The later editions, too, offer increasing signs that Wordsworth means this book to mark a turning point in the history of poetics.

More on these issues can be found in this excellent electronic edition: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/LB/preface.html