![]() Some of the new material in the expanded Preface suggests that the revision took place in the early months of 1802: see Prose, i. Lyrical Ballads actually appeared in January 1801, and by June of that year had sold well enough to enable Longman, its publisher, to call for a new edition this was in print by April 1802, and to it Wordsworth contributed an enlarged version of the Preface and the Appendix on poetic diction: see EY, 337 The Library, 5th Series, xii (1957), 94. 61–2 the manuscript is preserved, in part, in Yale University Library). ![]() ![]() The shorter, early version of the Preface (1800) was written probably in the late summer of 1800, certainly in September, and on 1 October Dorothy Wordsworth ‘corrected the last sheet’ of the manuscript (Journals, i. ![]()
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