Lyrical Ballads Criticism

Lyrical Ballads, a landmark poetry collection by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is crucial in the advent of Romanticism in English literature. First published anonymously in 1798, this work marked a profound shift in poetic language and subject matter, as articulated in Wordsworth's "Preface" to the 1800 edition. This document redefined the role of poetry and its language, advocating for themes centered on ordinary life and emotional authenticity over classical formality.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Essays
    • Lyrical Ballads.
    • Lyrical Ballads.
    • The Lyrical Ballads
    • Paradox and Equivocation
    • Dionysus in Lyrical Ballads
    • The Ballad as Pastoral
    • Unity and Diversity
    • ‘The Tragic Super-Tragic’ and Salisbury Plain
    • Morality through Experience: Lyrical Ballads 1798
    • ‘Leaping and lingering’: Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
    • ‘Michael,’ ‘Christabel,’ and the Poetry of Possession
    • Lyrical Ballads: The Current of Opinion
    • The Haunted Language of the Lucy Poems
    • ‘Elementary Feelings’ and ‘Distorted Language’: The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’
    • Revaluating Revolution and Radicalness in the Lyrical Ballads
    • Guardians and Watchful Powers: Literary Satire and Lyrical Ballads in 1798
    • Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, and the Problem of Peasant Poetry
  • Further Reading