JOHN BLADES currently lectures at the University of Leeds, UK.

• General Editor's PrefaceSome Important Events During the Lives of Wordsworth and ColeridgeIntroductionPART I: ANALYSING LYRICAL BALLADSChildhood and Growth of the MindImaginationOld Age: A 'vital anxiousness'Society Issues: 'the mean and vulgar works of man'Nature and the Supernatural: 'the strangeness of it'PART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS The Politics of Wordsworth and ColeridgeReading and Writing in Late Eighteenth-Century EnglandThe Poet as Critic and TheoristDorothy Wordsworth and the Lake PoetsCritical Responses to Lyrical BalladsFurther ReadingIndex.

JOHN BLADES currently lectures at the University of Leeds, UK.

• General Editor's PrefaceSome Important Events During the Lives of Wordsworth and ColeridgeIntroductionPART I: ANALYSING LYRICAL BALLADSChildhood and Growth of the MindImaginationOld Age: A 'vital anxiousness'Society Issues: 'the mean and vulgar works of man'Nature and the Supernatural: 'the strangeness of it'PART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS The Politics of Wordsworth and ColeridgeReading and Writing in Late Eighteenth-Century EnglandThe Poet as Critic and TheoristDorothy Wordsworth and the Lake PoetsCritical Responses to Lyrical BalladsFurther ReadingIndex.

JOHN BLADES currently lectures at the University of Leeds, UK.

• General Editor's PrefaceSome Important Events During the Lives of Wordsworth and ColeridgeIntroductionPART I: ANALYSING LYRICAL BALLADSChildhood and Growth of the MindImaginationOld Age: A 'vital anxiousness'Society Issues: 'the mean and vulgar works of man'Nature and the Supernatural: 'the strangeness of it'PART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS The Politics of Wordsworth and ColeridgeReading and Writing in Late Eighteenth-Century EnglandThe Poet as Critic and TheoristDorothy Wordsworth and the Lake PoetsCritical Responses to Lyrical BalladsFurther ReadingIndex.