LYRICAL BALLADS 1798 EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND APPENDIX BY HAROLD LITTLEDALE, M.A., D.LITT. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE LONDON HENRY FROWDE 1911 Г NOTE EXCEPT that the Errata of 1798 have been incorporated in the text, and the lines numbered, this is verbatim et literatim a reprint of the original edition of the Lyrical Ballads, 1798. A page and a half of Advertisement of books Published for Joseph Cottle, Bristol', have been omitted at end; in 1800, when writing to Biggs and Cottle, Wordsworth said: 'N.B. It is my particular desire that no advertisements of Books be printed at the end of the volume.' (See Longman MSS., ed. W. Hale White, p. 31.) The pagination goes wrong after page 69 owing to the substitution of The Nightingale for a shorter poem, Lewti, after some few copies had been printed off. Coleridge, in a letter to Biggs (Cottle's partner), asks him to be careful that the last word of the line O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the woods, be correctly given, 'woods', and not 'wood', as in 'some of the copies'. This letter (giving corrections for the 1800 edition) thus seems further evidence (Mr. W. Hale White, p. 44, thinks) that 'alterations must have been made in the 1798 edition while it was passing through the press'. On p. 19 (A. M. line 200) Off darts the Spectreship' was printed Oft darts, &c.' and altered with a pen to Off' in all extant copies except three (says Mr. R. A. Potts, quoted by Mr. Hutchinson in his edition, p. lv). H. L. P.P. 490 a 2 |