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.

Notes on the Contributors Notes on Texts Introduction; N.Trott & S.Perry The Unity of Lyrical Ballads; J.Beer Lyrical Ballads : The Title Revisited; Z.Leader Primitive Poets and Dying Indians; T.Fulford Wordsworth and the Six Arts of Childhood; M.Gaull Wordsworth's Self-Creation and the 1800 Lyrical Ballads; K.R.Johnston Lyrical Ballads and 'Pre-Established Codes of Decision'; M.O'Neill Wordsworth's Loves of the Plants; N.Trott Coleridge and Wordsworth: Imagination, Accidence and Inevitability; S.Perry Reading Aloud: 'An Ambiguous Accompaniment'; L.Newlyn Renewing Lyrical Ballads; N.Roe Index

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