Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads: Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780333522592 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 176 str.

Patrick Campbell; P. Campbell

Opis

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 Though the judgments of the periodicals and the ensuing authorial reaction have long since been superseded by a plethora of scholarly interpretations, the debate still focuses on their elusive, paradoxical character.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.

Spis treści

List of Abbreviations.- Introduction.- PART 1: LYRICAL BALLADS: THE CURRENT OF OPINION Contemporaneous Criticism: the Magazines.- Victorian and Later Criticism: some Trends.- PART 2: CRITICISM IN CONTEXT, 1797-8 The Social and Political Background.- Biographical Considerations: Collaboration or Conflict?.- The Philosophical Context.- Literary Influences.- PART 3: LYRICAL BALLADS: RECENT INTERPRETATIVE STANCES Formalist Approaches: 'The Bridle of Pegasus'.- The Issue of 'Genre'.- Psychoanalytical Perspectives.- Marxist, Historicist and Problematic Readings.- PART 4: LYRICAL BALLADS: CRITICISM OF THE MAJOR POEMS 'The Ancient Mariner'.- 'Tintern Abbey'.- 'The Thorn'.- 'The Idiot Boy'.- PART 5: THE POET AS CRITIC: THE PREFACE (1800).- PART 6: PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES: THE 'OTHER' LYRICAL BALLADS Three Ballads.- Two Laments.- 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill'.- 'Simon Lee'.- Two Expostulatory Pieces.- Two Credal Lyrics.- Two Anecdotes.- 'The Nightingale'.- PART 7: FROM ADVERTISEMENT TO ALBATROSS: UNITY OR DIVERSITY?.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

PATRICK CAMPBELL is a principle lecturer in English at Middlesex Polytechnic and has written several articles which range from Tennyson, Shakespeare and Siegfried Sassoon to the work of the rock 'n' roll singer Ian Dury.