Introduction written by another person.

The Preface to Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition published in 1800 of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802.

The preface paradox, or the paradox of the preface,Makinson, D. C., Paradox of the Preface, Analysis 25 205-207. was introduced by David Makinson in 1965.