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| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads 1798-1805 William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1903 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2013-07-11 'Listen, Stranger!' Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey', 'A Slumber did my Spirit seal' and many more. Wordsworth's famous Preface is a manifesto not just for Romanticism but for poetry in general. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with the fullest version of the Preface and Wordsworth's important Appendix on Poetic Diction. It offers modern readers a sense of what it was like to encounter Lyrical Ballads for the first time, and to see how it developed. Important letters are included, as well as a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical ballads : the text of the 1798 edition with the additional 1800 poems and the prefaces William Wordsworth, 1963 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1900 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Romanticism and Transcendence J. Robert Barth, 2003 Grounded in the thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romanticism and Transcendence explores the religious dimensions of imagination in the Romantic tradition, both theoretically and in the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge. J. Robert Barth suggests that we may look to Coleridge for the theoretical grounding of the view of religious imagination proposed in this book, but that it is in Wordsworth above all that we see this imagination at work. Barth first argues that the Romantic imagination--with its profound symbolic import--of its very nature has religious implications, and notes parallels between Coleridge's view of the imagination and that of Ignatius Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises. He then turns to the role of religious experience in Wordsworth, using The Prelude as a privileged source. Next, after comparing the conception of humanity and God in Wordsworth and Coleridge, Barth considers the role of religious experience and imagery in two of Coleridge's central poetic texts, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel. Finally, Barth examines the continuing role of the Romantic idea of the religious imagination today, in literature and all the arts, linking it with the thought of theologian Karl Rahner and literary critic George Steiner. Romanticism and Transcendence brings together literary theory, poetry, and religious experience, areas that are interrelated but are often not seen in relationship. By exploring levels of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's poetry that are often ignored, Barth provides insight into how and why the imagination was so important to their work. He also demonstrates how rich with religious value and meaning poetry and the arts can be. The interdisciplinary nature of this important new study will make it useful not only to Wordsworth and Coleridge scholars and other Romantic specialists, but also to anyone concerned with the intellectual history of the nineteenth century and to theologians in general. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, 2008-08-22 Long central to the canon of British Romantic literature, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads is a fascinating case study in the history of poetry, publishing, and authorship. This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the 1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety. In the appendices to this Broadview edition, reviews, correspondence, and a selection of contemporary verse and prose situate the work within the popular and experimental literature of its time, and allow readers to trace the work’s transformations in response to the pressures of the literary marketplace. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Wordsworth and Coleridge Nicholas Roe, 2018-11-22 This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the three decades since the book first appeared. Fresh material is drawn from newspapers and printed sources; the poetry of 1798 is given more detailed attention, and the critical debate surrounding new historicism is freshly appraised. A new introduction reflects on how the book was originally researched, offers new insights into the notorious Léonard Bourdon killings of 1793, and revisits John Thelwall's predicament in 1798. University politics, radical dissent, and first-hand experiences of Revolutionary France form the substance of the opening chapters. Wordsworth's and Coleridge's relations with William Godwin and John Thelwall are tracked in detail, and both poets are shown to have been closely connected with the London Corresponding Society. Godwin's diaries, now accessible in electronic form, have been drawn upon extensively to supplement the narrative of his intellectual influence. Offering a comparative perspective on the poets and their contemporaries, the book investigates the ways in which 1790s radicals coped with personal crisis, arrests, trumped-up charges, and prosecutions. Some fled the country, becoming refugees; others went underground, hiding away as inner émigrés. Against that backdrop, Wordsworth and Coleridge opted for a different revolution: they wrote poems that would change the way people thought. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads P. Campbell, 1991-09-23 Lyrical Ballads have always been wedded to controversy. Though the judgments of the periodicals and the ensuing authorial reaction have long since been superseded by a plethora of scholarly interpretations, the debate still focuses on their elusive, paradoxical character. Are the poems traditional or experimental, a random collocation or an organised sequence? Patrick Campbell surveys the critical fluctuations of nearly two centuries while privileging recent approaches which have sought fresh perspectives on the volume - contextual, formalist and genre based, psycho-analytic, materialist, maverick. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth Richard Gravil, Daniel Robinson, 2015-01-22 The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2024-01-05 Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth represents a seminal collaboration that marked the dawn of the Romantic Movement in English literature. This collection encompasses a diversity of themes and literary styles, ranging from the tranquility of nature to the tumults of the human psyche, effectively capturing the quintessence of Romanticism's valorization of emotion and nature. Notable for its innovative use of common language within lyrical poetry, the anthology stands as a defiant departure from the more ornate, classical forms that preceded it, thereby redefining the literary landscape of its time. The backgrounds of Wordsworth and Coleridge, both pivotal figures of the Romantic era, offer a rich tapestry of cultural and intellectual contexts that inform this collection. Their collaborative effort not only underscored the personal and philosophical kinship between the two poets but also crystallized the defining characteristics of Romantic literature: an emphasis on emotion, a focus on the individual's experience of the sublime, and a deep reverence for nature. Through their works, they championed a new, accessible poetic diction, significantly influencing subsequent literary movements and generations of poets. This anthology is recommended for readers seeking to immerse themselves in the lyrical beauty and thematic depth of the Romantic era. Lyrical Ballads and other Poems presents a unique opportunity to experience the converging visions of Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose collective genius reshaped poetic expression. The collection not only offers invaluable insights into the intellectual and emotional fervor of its time but also encourages a continued dialogue with the many facets of human experience and the natural world. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to explore the foundations of Romantic literature and its enduring legacy. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: A Companion to Romanticism Duncan Wu, 1998 Contexts and perspectives vital to our understanding of the origins and evolution of the concept of Romanticism are covered in eight introductory essays. These are followed by 22 readings of key texts from Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, and Other Poems, 1797-1800 William Wordsworth, 1992 The present edition provides the first comprehensive textual history from earliest manuscript to final lifetime printing of the poems published in the epochal Lyrical Ballads, and of contemporaneous short poems by Wordsworth (1770-1850). For those poems originally published in 1800, this edition is |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Thomas Hutchinson, 2017-05-19 Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A second edition was published in 1800, in which Wordsworth included additional poems and a preface detailing the pair's avowed poetical principles.For another edition, published in 1802, Wordsworth added an appendix titled Poetic Diction in which he expanded the ideas set forth in the preface.Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, learned and highly sculpted forms of 18th century English poetry and bring poetry within the reach of the average person by writing the verses using normal, everyday language. They place an emphasis on the vitality of the living voice that the poor use to express their reality. Using this language also helps assert the universality of human emotions. Even the title of the collection recalls rustic forms of art - the word lyrical links the poems with the ancient rustic bards and lends an air of spontaneity, while ballads are an oral mode of storytelling used by the common people. In the 'Advertisement' included in the 1798 edition, Wordsworth explained his poetical concept: The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure.[4] If the experiment with vernacular language was not enough of a departure from the norm, the focus on simple, uneducated country people as the subject of poetry was a signal shift to modern literature. One of the main themes of Lyrical Ballads is the return to the original state of nature, in which people led a purer and more innocent existence. Wordsworth subscribed to Rousseau's belief that humanity was essentially good but was corrupted by the influence of society. This may be linked with the sentiments spreading through Europe just prior to the French Revolution.... Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.... Thomas Hutchinson (9 September 1711 - 3 June 1780) was a businessman, historian, and a prominent Loyalist politician of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years before the American Revolution. He has been referred to as the most important figure on the loyalist side in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts..... William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as the poem to Coleridge.Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.... |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1884 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Wordsworth William Wordsworth, 2016-11-03 Whether wandering the hills or whiling away an hour waiting for a train, no reader can fail to be touched by the lyrical, evocative beauty of William Wordsworth's verse contained in this anthology. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: A Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798 Coleridge and Wordsworth, 2018-08-13 Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Recluse William Wordsworth, 1888 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Select Poems of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, 1889 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, 1798, [of] Wordsworth and Coleridge William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1967 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2003 Lyrical Ballads constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject matter and its anti-conventional language. This volume contains all of Lyrical Ballads with Wordsworth's preface of 1800/1802, and a wide range of both poets' other work across their poetic careers. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads' Sally Bushell, 2020-01-09 Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere and Wordsworth's Lines written above Tintern Abbey were first published, lies at the heart of British Romanticism, establishing a poetics of powerful feeling, that is, nonetheless, expressed in direct, conversational language and exploring the everyday realities of common life. This engaging, accessible collection provides a comprehensive overview of current approaches to Lyrical Ballads, enabling readers to find fresh ways of understanding and responding to the volume. Sally Bushell's introduction explores how the Preface to the second edition (1800) became a potent manifesto for the Romantic movement. Broad in scope, the Companion includes accessible essays on Wordsworth's experiments with language and metre, ecocritical approaches, the reception of the volume in America and more; furnishing students and scholars with a range of entry points to this seminal text. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Complete Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, 2017-10-05 The Complete Lyrical Ballads is collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry.Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, learned and highly sculpted forms of 18th century English poetry and bring poetry within the reach of the average person by writing the verses using normal, everyday language. They place an emphasis on the vitality of the living voice that the poor use to express their reality. Using this language also helps assert the universality of human emotions. Even the title of the collection recalls rustic forms of art - the word lyrical links the poems with the ancient rustic bards and lends an air of spontaneity, while ballads are an oral mode of storytelling used by the common people. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads, 1798-1805 William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1903 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical ballads, by W. Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge, 1798. Ed. with certain poems of 1798, and an intr. and notes, by T. Hutchinson William Wordsworth, 1898 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2008-08-22 Long central to the canon of British Romantic literature, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads is a fascinating case study in the history of poetry, publishing, and authorship. This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the 1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety. In the appendices to this Broadview edition, reviews, correspondence, and a selection of contemporary verse and prose situate the work within the popular and experimental literature of its time, and allow readers to trace the work’s transformations in response to the pressures of the literary marketplace. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, 1898 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour July 13th, 1798 William Wordsworth, 1904 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads [by] Wordsworth and Coleridge; the Text of the 1798 Edition with the Additional 1800 Poems and the Prefaces William Wordsworth, 1963 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: William Wordsworth Stephen Gill, 2020-04-08 In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. The various phases of Wordsworth's life are explored with a not uncritical sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a conviction that Wordsworth's poetry, which has given pleasure and comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do so in the years to come. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798) William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2018-12-15 Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry.ContentWordsworth and Coleridge set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, learned, and highly sculpted forms of 18th-century English poetry and to make poetry accessible to the average person via verse written in common, everyday language. They emphasize the vitality of the living voice used by the poor to express their reality. This language also helps assert the universality of human emotions. Even the title of the collection recalls rustic forms of art - the word lyrical links the poems with the ancient rustic bards and lends an air of spontaneity, while ballads are an oral mode of storytelling used by the common people.In the 'Advertisement' included in the 1798 edition, Wordsworth explained his poetical concept: The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure.If the experiment with vernacular language was not enough of a departure from the norm, the focus on simple, uneducated country people as the subject of poetry was a signal shift to modern literature. One of the main themes of Lyrical Ballads is the return to the original state of nature, in which people led a purer and more innocent existence. Wordsworth subscribed to Rousseau's belief that humanity was essentially good but was corrupted by the influence of society. This may be linked with the sentiments spreading through Europe just prior to the French Revolution...William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as the poem to Coleridge.Wordsworth was Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850...Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and on American transcendentalism.Throughout his adult life Coleridge had crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it has been speculated that he had bipolar disorder, which had not been defined during his lifetime. He was physically unhealthy, which may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these conditions with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction. Coleridge |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads Michael Mason, 2014-06-06 Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a unique work of literature. first published in 1798, it marked a radical change in the direction of English Literature. Lyrical Ballads represented a movement away from the overwrought, highly formal and learned verse of the 18th century and in so doing ushered in a new, more democratic poetic era. Written in the language of the common man and addressing the concerns of the common man, Lyrical Ballads was the first - and remains the most - truly revolutionary collection of poetry, paving the way for the great Romantic poets - keats, Byron, Shelley et al. - and proving that, while there was no actual revolution on the ground, England could still be the most revolutionary of places. Lyrical Ballads was not a single phenomenon but a sequence of four editions spread over seven years; its appearance in English literature was not a historical moment but a sequence of moments - 1798, 1800, 1802, 1805. This edition - based on the 1805 edition, but looking back on each of the previous publications - shows how this collection developed, how it was refined and added to by the authors. No other edition on the market has such a wealth of key background information. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: William Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads, 1798. D. by W. J. B. Owen.... William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, W. J. B.. Owen, 1967 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic Jeffrey Cox, 2021-05-20 William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic provides a truly comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth and the full arc of his career from (1814–1840) revealing that his major poems after Waterloo contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries: Keats, Shelley and Byron. Refuting conventional models of influence, where Wordsworth 'fathers' the younger poets, Cox demonstrates how Wordsworth's later writing evolved in response to 'second generation' romanticism. After exploring the ways in which his younger contemporaries rewrote his 'Excursion', this volume examines how Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode' enters into a complex conversation with Leigh Hunt and Byron; how the delayed publication of 'Peter Bell' could be read as a reaction to the Byronic hero; how the older poet's River Duddon sonnets respond to Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'; and how his later volumes, particularly 'Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837', engage in a complicated erasure of poets who both followed and predeceased him. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1 William Wordsworth, 2021-12-02 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Excursion William Wordsworth, 1820 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2016-04-29 Lyrical Ballads is a poetic collection by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and marked as the start of the English Romantic movement. Its immediate effect was modest, but over time it has become a landmark and changed the course of English literature and poetry. Wordsworth contributed most of the poems to this volume but those by Coleridge include perhaps his most famous - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to radically change the stuffy, learned and highly structured forms of 18th century English poetry in an effort to bring the true beauty of poetry to ordinary people by writing in everyday language. An emphasis was placed on the vitality of the conversational wording that the poor use to express their own lives. Using this language also helps assert the universality of human emotions. Even the title brings to mind rustic forms of art - the word lyrical links the poems with the ancient rustic bards and lends an air of spontaneity, while ballads are an oral mode of storytelling used by ordinary people. If the experiment with vernacular language was not enough of a departure from the norm, the focus on simple, uneducated country people as the subject of poetry was a signal shift to modern literature. One of the main themes of Lyrical Ballads is the return to the original state of nature, in which people led a purer and more innocent existence. |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1897 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Wordsworth & Coleridge William Wordsworth, 1911 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: Trailing Clouds of Glory William Wordsworth, 1996 |
| lyrical ballads 1798 of wordsworth and coleridge: The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1853 |
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