WORDSWORTH, William, & Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

£8,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Lyrical Ballads, with other poems. First complete edition, comprising the first edition of the second volume and the second edition of the first. This finely bound copy is from the library of William Alfred Foyle (1885-1963), the founder of Foyles bookshop, and has his Beeleigh Abbey bookplate (sold in his sale, Christie's, 13 July 2000, lot 758).Wordsworth here prints for the first time his celebrated preface, the "revolutionary manifesto for the romantic movement" (PMM), in which he famously defines poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity." He also rearranges the contents of the first volume, which first appeared in 1798, and adds a second volume of more than 30 new poems.

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