Published to commemorate the bicentenary of the second edition of
Lyrical Ballads (1900), this collection gathers essays from ten leading
British and American scholars to explore the distinctive originality of
these famous volumes, and to analyse their lasting influence. With
essays in cultural history and biographical reconstruction, as well as
close readings of the poems and of their leading critics, 1800: The New
Lyrical Ballads offers a uniquely comprehensive account of one of the
crucial episodes in British Romanticism.