The Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads'
The Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads'
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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.
- Provides a clear and thorough introduction to a book that students on any Romanticism course will read, acting as a critical introduction allowing students to explore for themselves
- The only collection to cover all aspects of this important work and all key themes within it, ranging across all three major editions
- Recent critical approaches from a team of leading scholars contributing up-to-date approaches, continuing to make the collection fresh and relevant today
Reviews & endorsements
‘This bright new Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads’ is a thoughtfully conceived and well-executed collection that illuminates the famous book from several angles.' Seamus Perry, The Wordsworth Circle
Product details
- Published: February 2020
- Format: Adobe eBook Reader
- ISBN: 9781108246118
- Length: 0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Part and Whole
- 1. Wordsworth's 'Preface': A Manifesto for British Romanticism Sally Bushell
- 2. Collaboration, Domestic Co-partnery and Lyrical Ballads Polly Atkin
- 3. Coleridgean Contributions Tim Fulford
- 4. Lyric Voice, Ballad Voice Pete Newbon
- Part II. Subjects and Situations from Common Life
- 5. Conversation in Lyrical Ballads Frances Ferguson
- 6. The Power of Things in Lyrical Ballads Paul H. Fry
- 7. Marginal Figures Philip Shaw
- Part III. Feeling and Thought
- 8. Silence and Sympathy in Lyrical Ballads Andrew Bennett
- 9. Domestic Affections and the Home Susan Wolfson
- Part IV. Language and the Human Mind
- 10. A 'Radical Difference': Wordsworth's Experiments in Language and Metre Brennan O'Donnell
- 11. Awkward Relations: Poetry and Philosophy in Lyrical Ballads Alexander Regier
- Part V. A Global Lyrical Ballads
- 12. Ecocritical Approaches to Lyrical Ballads James C. McKusick
- 13. Rhyming Revolutionaries: Lyrical Ballads in America Joel Pace
- 14. The Indigenous Lyrical Ballads Nikki Hessell.
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