WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834). Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. London: Biggs and Co. for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800.
WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834). Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. London: Biggs and Co. for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. 2 volumes, 8 o (152 x 91 mm). (Some spotting in vol. 2.) Contemporary mottled calf; letting-pieces (front joint of vol. 2 partly split). Provenance : Hariot F. Alpe (early signature in pencil on title); Gilman (bookplate); Lord Carlingford (bookplate); Leroy Arthur Sugarman (bookplate); Haven O'More (bookplate; sale The Garden Ltd., Sotheby's New York, 10 November 1989, lot 170). Second edition, and best: comprising the poems of the 1798 edition with one addition and with Wordsworth's celebrated 40-page preface, PRINTED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME. The second volume is entirely new, and contains 41 new poems. Wordsworth's revolutionary Preface became the manifesto of Romantic poets. In it, Wordsworth reacts against the stultification and artificiality of late 18th-century verse and builds a poetics meant "to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature... For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." His "outline of the supreme function of poetry, expressed in such phrases that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity", set a new tone; and it became in effect the revolutionary manifesto of the romantic poets of the next generation" ( PMM 256). Or, as T.S. Eliot wrote, "Wordsworth is really the first, in the unsettled state of affairs in his time, to annex new authority for the poet, to meddle with social affairs, and to offer a new kind of religious sentiment which it seemed the peculiar prerogative of the poet to interpret" ( The Uses of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ). Ashley VIII, pp.6-9; Barker, Wordsworth: A Life in Letters (2005), passim; Hayward 202; PMM 256; Rothschild 2603; Wise Wordsworth 5.
WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834). Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. London: Biggs and Co. for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800.
WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834). Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. London: Biggs and Co. for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. 2 volumes, 8 o (152 x 91 mm). (Some spotting in vol. 2.) Contemporary mottled calf; letting-pieces (front joint of vol. 2 partly split). Provenance : Hariot F. Alpe (early signature in pencil on title); Gilman (bookplate); Lord Carlingford (bookplate); Leroy Arthur Sugarman (bookplate); Haven O'More (bookplate; sale The Garden Ltd., Sotheby's New York, 10 November 1989, lot 170). Second edition, and best: comprising the poems of the 1798 edition with one addition and with Wordsworth's celebrated 40-page preface, PRINTED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME. The second volume is entirely new, and contains 41 new poems. Wordsworth's revolutionary Preface became the manifesto of Romantic poets. In it, Wordsworth reacts against the stultification and artificiality of late 18th-century verse and builds a poetics meant "to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature... For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." His "outline of the supreme function of poetry, expressed in such phrases that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity", set a new tone; and it became in effect the revolutionary manifesto of the romantic poets of the next generation" ( PMM 256). Or, as T.S. Eliot wrote, "Wordsworth is really the first, in the unsettled state of affairs in his time, to annex new authority for the poet, to meddle with social affairs, and to offer a new kind of religious sentiment which it seemed the peculiar prerogative of the poet to interpret" ( The Uses of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ). Ashley VIII, pp.6-9; Barker, Wordsworth: A Life in Letters (2005), passim; Hayward 202; PMM 256; Rothschild 2603; Wise Wordsworth 5.
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