Research Catalog

Title

Wordsworth and Coleridge : lyrical ballads / edited with introduction, notes and appendices by R.L. Brett and A.R. Jones ; with a new introduction by Nicholas Roe.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
• Brett, R. L.
• Jones, Alun R. (Alun Richard)

Description

xxix, 403 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

• "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 purposes of poetic pleasure - William Wordsworth, from the Advertisment prefacing the original 1798 edition. When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to what had been voiced before. For Wordsworth, as he so clearly stated in his celebrated preface to the 1800 edition (also reproduced here), the important thing was the emotion aroused by the poem, and not the poem itself.
• This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge's and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Routledge classics

Uniform Title

Routledge classics

Alternative Title

Lyrical ballads

Subject

• Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 > Criticism and interpretation
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 > Criticism and interpretation
• Wordsworth, William > Criticism and interpretation
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor > Criticism and interpretation
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
• Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
• 1800-1899
• English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
• Classicism > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• English poetry > Classical influences
• Romanticism > Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Ballads (texts)

Note

• "First published as a University paperback, 1968; second edition published 1991 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxv]-xxix) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lyrical ballads, 1798 -- Advertisement -- Poems -- Lyrical ballads, 1800 -- Love -- Poems, volume II -- App. A. Text of Lewti; or, the Circassian love-chant -- App. B. Wordworth's appendix on poetic diction from the 1802 edition of lyrical ballads -- App. C. Some contemporary criticism of Lyrical ballads.

ISBN

041535529X

LCCN

^^2005011555

OCLC

• 60375582
• SCSB-12491616

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library