Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth and Coleridge

ISBN-13: 9780415355292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 410 str.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Opis

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 that which had been voiced before. 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.

Recenzje

'Must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the weight of over-cooked Augustanisms.' - The Guardian

Spis treści

Lyrical Ballads.  Preface to the Routledge Classics edition by Nicholas Roe.  Foreword.  Foreword to the 1991 Edition.  A Selected Bibliography and List of Abbreviations.  Introduction.  Lyrical Ballads, 1798.  Advertisement.  Poems.  Lyrical Ballads, 1800.  Love.  Poems, Volume II.  Preface 1800 Version (with 1802 Variants).  Notes to the Poems.  Appendix A: Text of Lewti; or, the Circassian Love-Chant.  Appendix B: Wordsworth’s Appendix on Poetic Diction from 1802 edition of Lyrical Ballads.  Appendix C: Some Contemporary Criticism of Lyrical Ballads.  Index of Titles.  Index of First Lines.

O autorze

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was one of the most influential of the Romantic poets. He grew up in the Lake District, and was educated at Cambridge. His friendship with S.T. Coleridge led to their joint project, "Lyrical Ballads", which was published in 1798. At the same time, Wordsworth began work on what was to become "The Prelude", which was first published three months after his death, in 1850. He became poet laureate in 1843.