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It has been well-documented that Wordsworth and Coleridge, who decided not do use their names on the title page of the 1798 volume, read avidly travels and voyages in order to expand their scope of knowledge in man, nature, and human life. This paper intends to demonstrate how Lyrical Ballads of 1798 actively appropriates motifs, imagery, and scenes of travel literature. More specifically, it proposes a single traveller-narrator who practices his authorial function over the individual poems in the volume; he is a composite figure of two author of the 1798 volume. He is also an explorer who attempts to achieve his authenticity by participating, and often endangering himself, in a pedestrian journey. To prove the efficacy of the travel narrative framework in analysing the 1798 volume, this paper is carefully examining the original motives of Lyrical Ballads project, the material dimension of the volume, significant travel motifs of individual poems, and the trends of travelling industry in 1790s.