Sally Bushell, The Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads'.

This article reviews *The Cambridge Companion to Lyrical Ballads*, a collection of fourteen essays exploring the three major editions (1798, 1800, 1802) of Wordsworth and Coleridge's *Lyrical Ballads* as interconnected versions of one work. The essays address a range of topics including eighteenth-century moral sentiment theories, ecocriticism, Dorothy Wordsworth's role, and the reception of the poems in America and India, with particular focus on key poems like "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." While some essays are accessible to students, others engage in dense, specialized analysis, such as discussions of poetic form, style, and philosophical implications. The review notes the Companion's limited treatment of formalist approaches to meter and stanza and criticizes the volume's flawed, computer-generated index, which hampers its usability for research.