- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Here, Wordsworth closes out his preface by asking his readers to form their own opinions about the ballads to come. Given the revolutionary nature of his poetry as well as the criticisms he makes in the “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads,” Wordsworth is keenly aware that the popular poets of his time will most likely react negatively to his work. This rather unsettles Wordsworth, as the herd mentality of modern, urban populations may cause groups of people to unnecessarily “dislike” his poems. In attempt to prevent this from happening, Wordsworth encourages the reader to “decide by his own feelings genuinely…