Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a unique work of literature. first published in 1798, it marked a radical change in the direction of English Literature. Lyrical Ballads represented a movement away from the overwrought, highly formal and learned verse of the 18th century and in so doing ushered in a new, more democratic poetic era. Written in the language of the common man and addressing the concerns of the common man, Lyrical Ballads was the first - and remains the most - truly revolutionary collection of poetry, paving the way for the great Romantic poets - keats, Byron, Shelley et al. - and proving that, while there was no actual revolution on the ground, England could still be the most revolutionary of places. Lyrical Ballads was not a single phenomenon but a sequence of four editions spread over seven years; its appearance in English literature was not a historical moment but a sequence of moments - 1798, 1800, 1802, 1805.' this edition - based on the 1805 edition, but looking back on each of the previous publications - shows how this collection developed, how it was refined and added to by the authors. No other edition on the market has such a wealth of key background information.

ISBN 1405840609   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781405840606 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 558 Publisher Pearson Education Limited   Published in Harlow Imprint Longman   Series title Longman Annotated Texts Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780582033030 Publication date 08 Jan 2007   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress 2006051510   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 821.7   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 448

		Lyrical ballads 1798 to 1805		1
		The Wordsworth-Coleridge collaboration		4
		Lyrical ballads generically considered		9
		An infinite complexity of pain and pleasure		18
		Coleridge's lines on 'The nightingale'		33
		Advertisement		34
		Argument to 'The ancient mariner' (1798)		36
		Coleridge's letter on 'Love'		36
		Wordsworth's note to 'The thorn'		37
		Wordsworth's note to 'The ancient mariner'		39
		Argument to 'The ancient mariner' (1800)		40
		Wordsworth to Charles James Fox		41
		Coleridge to William Wilberforce		45
		Coleridge to Sir James Bland Burges		47
		From Wordsworth's letter to Thomas Poole		48
		Wordsworth to John Wilson		49
		Expostulation and reply		97
		The tables turned		99
		Animal tranquillity and decay		101
		Goody Blake and Harry Gill		103
		The last of the flock		108
		Lines (left upon a scat in a yew-tree)		112
		The foster-mother's tale		115
		The thorn		118
		We are seven		128
		Anecdote for fathers		132
		Lines (written at a small distance from my house)		135
		The female vagrant		137
		Lines written in early spring		145
		Simon Lee		147
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