Lyrical Ballads 1800 - Softcover

Wordsworth, William; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911477021 ISBN 13: 9781911477020

Publisher: Red Axe Books, 2016

Synopsis

The publication of Lyrical Ballads was English poetry's defining moment; its revolutionary style and content influencing every poet who followed from 1798 to the present day. Poetry of the head became poetry of the heart and soul. The additional poems in this, the expanded 1800 edition, include many of the best loved in the language, and marked the first appearance of Wordsworth's controversial Preface. Nigel Nelson is a distinguished Fleet Street journalist of 40 years standing, and he has brought that experience to bear on painstaking and original research for a brilliant reassessment of the lives and reputations of Wordsworth and Coleridge. He is political editor of the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People and appears regularly on BBC News and Sky News.

About this title

About the Author:

William Wordsworth, one of the leaders of the Romantic Movement in English literature, first published "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1807. This timeless tribute to nature's beauty and its ability inspire the human spirit is used with permission of the Wordsworth Trust.

1711-1780

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Axe Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1911477021
• ISBN 13: 9781911477020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240