Harold B. Lee Library

Early Editions: Poetry

Lyrical ballads, with other poems.  2nd edition.  London: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, by Biggs and Co. Bristol, 1800.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 L995 1800 v. 1-2

Lyrical ballads: with pastoral and other poems, in two volumes.  3rd edition.  London: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Cottle, 1802.
Note: Coleridge contributed four poems only to this edition, one of the original series, “The Dungeon,” having been withdrawn. Wordsworth’s “A Character” was also omitted. The “Preface” was considerably expanded. In this edition Coleridge cancelled the “Argument to The Ancient Mariner.”

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 L995 1802

Lyrical Ballads. 4th edition.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, by R. Taylor and Co., 1805.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 L995 5 v. 1-2

Poems in two volumes.  London: Printed for Longan, Hurst, Ress, and Orme, 1807.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 P751 1807 v. 1-2

The excursion: being a portion of The recluse, a poem.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 Ex27 1814

The white doe of Rylstone, or, The fate of the Nortons: a poem.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown … by J. Ballantyne and co., Edinburgh, 1815.

    Call Number: Vault Collection Quarto 821.713 W582 1815

Poems (1815).  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815.
Note: Three of the poems, “Address to a child,” “The mother’s return,” and “The cottager to the infant,” are by Dorothy Wordsworth.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 P752 1815 v. 1-2

Thanksgiving ode, January 18, 1816: with other short pieces, chiefly referring to recent public events. London: Printed by Thomas Davison, for Longman, Hurst, Orme, and Brown, 1816.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 T329 1816

Peter Bell: a tale in verse.  London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 P442 1819

The waggoner, a poem: to which are added, Sonnets.  London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 W124 1819

The River Duddon: a series of sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia: and other poems. To which is annexed, a topographical description of the country of the lakes, in the north of England.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 R524 1820

Ecclesiastical sketches.  London  Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1822.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 Ec28 1822

Memorials of a tour on the continent, 1820.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.

    Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5862 .A1 1822

The poetical works of William Wordsworth: complete in one volume (pirated edition).  Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1828.
Note: Mounted in rear of book is a manuscript letter from William Wordsworth to Harriet Martineau concerning drawing of Rydal Lake and another letter from Martineau to Miss Carpenter, the artist of the sketch.

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 P75 1828

Yarrow revisited, and other poems.  London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835.

    Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5869 .Y3 1835

Poems, chiefly of early and late years: including The borderers, a tragedy.  London: Edward Moxon, 1842.

    Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5852 1842

Ode on the installation of His Royal Highness, Prince Albert, as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.  London  Printed, by permission, by Vizetelly and Co., published by George Bell [1847].

    Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 Od2 1847

The prelude, or, Growth of a poet’s mind: an autobiographical poem.  London : Edward Moxon, 1850.

    Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5864 .A1 1850