Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems (Wordsworth Poetry Library) - Softcover

William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840225351 ISBN 13: 9781840225358

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject-matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's and Coleridge's other major poems were central to the Romantic period and remain classic texts in our own time. Wordsworth focuses on 'the essential passions of the heart' and achieves a penetrating insight into love and death, solitude and community. Coleridge explores a more fantastic and dreamlike imagination and also writes poems of quiet, conversational meditation. Both poets look with a fresh and visionary eye at the human and the natural world. They examine the condition of men and women at the extreme edge of society; they are also subtle analysts of their own minds and the processes of introspection and memory. This volume contains all of Lyrical Ballads (1798) with Wordsworth's Preface of 1800/1802, and a wide-ranging selection of both poet's other work, including virtually all their best known and discussed shorter poems.

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.

Martin Scofield is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1840225351
• ISBN 13: 9781840225358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352