Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798).
Author : Mary Jacobus
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Page : 301 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Mary Jacobus
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Page : 301 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Mary Jacobus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2017-05-19
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ISBN : 9781546782582
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....
Author : Richard Gravil
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1847600093
Part 1 (Life, Times, Themes) sets Lyrical Ballads in the context of Wordsworth life and his age, for instance Wordsworth in France. Part 2, Literary Strategies, considers Wordsworth's provocative theories of how poetry should work, and includes a treatment of the famous' Preface' to Lyrical Ballads, one of the great poetic manifestos. Part 3 offers illuminating commentary and questions on the following poems:' We are seven',' Anecdote for fathers',' Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree',' To my sister',' Lines written in Early Spring',' Expostulation and Reply',' The Tables Turned';,' The Female Vagrant',' Goody Blake and Harry Gill',' The Last of the Flock',' The Mad Mother',' The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman',' The Convict',' Old Man travelling',' Simon Lee',' The Idiot Boy',' TheThorn',' Tintern Abbey',' Hart-leap Well',' There was a boy',' Nutting',' The Lucy Poems',' The Brothers' and' Michael'. Part 4, on Critical Reception, discusses contemporary, Victorian and recent critical approaches to Wordsworth and includes an annotated guide to further reading.
Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415063884
A comprehensively revised classic with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together - the complete text of one of the most important documents of the Romantic movement with introduction, textual variants and copious notes.This is a comprehensively revised second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together. It contains the complete text of one of the most important documents of the Romantic movement - now with new introduction, textual variants and fully up-dated, copious notes.
Author : R. L. Brett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134922779
This is a comprehensively revised second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together. It contains the complete text of one of the most important documents of the Romantic movement - now with new introduction, textual variants and fully up-dated, copious notes.
Author : Richard Gravil
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199662126
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.
Author : Sarah Houghton-Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192697803
Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominates Wordsworth's poetry. This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation. Drawing on extensive close readings of Wordsworth's poetry, the book asks what it means to repeat, and how saying things again, often in a way which recognises both sameness and difference at the same time, is fundamental to Wordsworth's attempt to write what he called 'sincere' verse. By analysing instances of repetition and the conjunctions which facilitate recapitulation within Wordsworth's writing, the book attempts to understand the context, in terms of ideas of repetition, from which Wordsworth's works emerge, and to consider repetition in a broad range of senses - from repeated words and sounds within particular poems, to ideas of translation, allusion, and echo. Houghton-Walker also argues the importance of the element of difference within even apparently 'pure' repetition. Such difference might be in perception, attitude, or understanding, but for Wordsworth, the subtle relationship between instances of what seems to be the same experience illuminates the potential for poetry to portray simultaneously the specific and the universal: to hold within its lines both immediate and general truths at the same time.
Author : Stephen Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521646819
The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. The volume ensures that students will be grounded in the history of Wordsworth's career and his critical reception.
Author : William Wordsworth
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1903
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