1800: The New Lyrical Ballads

JOHN BEER Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Cambridge University, Fellow of Peterhouse TIM FULFORD Reader in English, Nottingham Trent University MARILYN GAULL Professor of English, New York University KENNETH JOHNSTON Professor of English, Indiana University ZACHERY LEADER Professor of English, Roehampton Institute, London LUCY NEWLYN Fellow and Tutor in English, St Edmund Hall, and Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Oxford MICHAEL O'NEILL Professor of English, University of Durham NICHOLAS ROE Professor of English, University of St Andrews

Published to commemorate the bicentenary of the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1900), this collection gathers essays from ten leading British and American scholars to explore the distinctive originality of these famous volumes, and to analyse their lasting influence.Published to commemorate the bicentenary of the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1900), this collection gathers essays from ten leading British and American scholars to explore the distinctive originality of these famous volumes, and to analyse their lasting influence. With essays in cultural history and biographical reconstruction, as well as close readings of the poems and of their leading critics, 1800: The New Lyrical Ballads offers a uniquely comprehensive account of one of the crucial episodes in British Romanticism.