Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1715 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Advertisement of Seventeen Ninety-Eight
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The idea
Lyrical Ballads opens with a short Advertisement stating the book's purpose. It is the first edition's preface, shorter than the famous one Wordsworth added later, and it states the programme plainly enough to be read in a minute.
In practice
A short preface, stating the programme.
Where people slip
The first edition's, not the later one.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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