Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (Lyrische Gedichte) ist eine erstmals 1798 veröffentlichte Gedichtsammlung von William Wordsworth und Samuel Taylor Coleridge, die gemeinhin als Anfang der englischen Romantik in der Literatur angesehen wird. Die Aufmerksamkeit der Kritik war zunächst gering, jedoch beeinflusste das Werk die englische Literatur und Dichtkunst maßgeblich. Das Vorwort der Ausgabe von 1800 gilt als Manifest der englischen Romantik.

Titelblatt der Erstausgabe

Die meisten der Gedichte der Erstausgabe von 1798 stammen von William Wordsworth. Coleridge trug nur vier Gedichte bei, die allerdings rund ein Drittel des Umfangs ausmachen. Die im Jahr 1800 veröffentlichte Zweitauflage enthielt weitere Gedichte von Wordsworth sowie das bereits genannte Vorwort. In den Folgeauflagen von 1802 und 1805 wurden die Gedanken dieses Vorworts in einem als Poetic Diction überschriebenen Anhang ausgebaut.

Gedichte in der ersten Auflage

(C.=Coleridge, alle anderen vom Wordsworth)

• The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (C.))
• The Foster-Mother’s Tale (C.)
• Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite
• The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem (C.)
• The Female Vagrant
• Goody Blake and Harry Gill
• Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed
• Simon Lee, the old Huntsman
• Anecdote for Fathers
• We are Seven
• Lines written in early spring
• The Thorn
• The last of the Flock
• The Dungeon (C.)
• The Mad Mother
• The Idiot Boy
• Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening
• Expostulation and Reply
• The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject
• Old Man travelling
• The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman
• The Convict
• Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

Gedichte in der Ausgabe von 1800

Band 1

• Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch
• The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
• The Last of the Flock
• Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite
• The Foster-Mother's Tale (C.)
• Goody Blake and Harry Gill
• The Thorn
• We are Seven
• Anecdote for Fathers
• Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House and Sent Me by My little Boy to the Person to whom They Are Addressed
• The Female Vagrant
• The Dungeon (C.)
• Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
• Lines Written in Early Spring
• The Nightingale, written in April 1798 (C.)
• Lines Written When Sailing in a Boat at Evening
• written Near Richmond, Upon the Thames
• The Idiot Boy
• Love (C.)
• The Mad Mother
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (C.)
• Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey

Band 2

• Hart-Leap Well
• There Was a Boy, &c.
• The Brothers, a Pastoral Poem
• Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle
• Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, &c.
• Song
• She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
• A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, &c.
• The Waterfall and the Eglantine
• The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral
• Lucy Gray
• The Idle Shepherd-Boys or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral
• 'Tis said that some have died for love, &c.
• Poor Susan
• Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage Stood on St Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water
• Inscription for the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere
• To a Sexton
• Andrew Jones
• The Two Thieves, or the Last Stage of Avarice
• A Whirl-blast from Behind the Hill, &c.
• Song for the Wandering Jew
• Ruth
• Lines Written with a Slate-Pencil upon a Stone, &c.
• Lines Written on a Tablet in a School
• The Two April Mornings
• The Fountain, a Conversation
• Nutting
• Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower, &c.
• The Pet-Lamb, a Pastoral
• Written in Germany on One of the Coldest Days of the Century
• The Childless Father
• The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description
• Rural Architecture
• A Poet's Epitaph
• A Character
• A Fragment
• Poems on the Naming of Places
• Michael, a Pastoral