Further Reading
- Averill, James H., "The Shape of Lyrical Ballads (1798)," Philological Quarterly 60, no. 3 (summer 1981): 387-407. (Explores the ways in which Coleridge and Wordsworth attempted to shape the structure and themes of the 1798 Lyrical Ballads through the placement of individual poems within the collection.)
- Bate, Jonathan, "Wordsworth and the Naming of Places," Essays in Criticism 39, no. 3 (July 1989): 196-216. (Discusses the origin and thematic value of Wordsworth's use of specific locales in his poetry.)
- Benis, Toby R., "Martha Ray's Face: Life During Wartime in Lyrical Ballads," Criticism 39, no. 2 (spring 1997): 205-27. (Draws an analogy between the situation of Martha Ray in “The Thorn” and the political situation in England during wartime.)
- Bialostosky, Don, "Genres from Life in Wordsworth's Art: Lyrical Ballads 1798," in Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre: Re-Forming Literature 1789-1837, edited by Tilottama Rajan and Julia M. Wright, pp. 109-21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. (Discusses Wordsworth's experiment with language in Lyrical Ballads using linguistic theory.)
- Boehnen, Scott, "The ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’: Poetics, Poor Laws, and the Bold Experiments of 1797-1802," Nineteenth-Century Contexts 20, no. 3 (1997): 287-311. (Explores Wordsworth's depiction of rural paupers in Lyrical Ballads in the context of the contemporary public debate about England's Poor Laws.)
- Clancey, Richard W., "Wordsworth, Horace, and the ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads,’" Charles Lamb Bulletin 68 (1989): 131-38. (Examines Wordsworth's poetry in terms of affinities with Horace and attributes Wordsworth's notion of “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” to Horace's view of the unity of all nature.)
- Garner, Margaret, "The Anapestic Lyrical Ballads: New Sympathies," The Wordsworth Circle 13, no. 4 (autumn 1982): 183-88. (Comments on Wordsworth's use of the anapestic meter, usually employed in comic pieces, to build sympathy for his characters in several serious poems from The Lyrical Ballads.)
- Gravil, Richard, "Lyrical Ballads (1798): Wordsworth as Ironist," Critical Quarterly 24, no. 4 (winter 1982): 39-57. (Discusses Wordsworth's use of irony in The Lyrical Ballads to criticize the sentimental and sensational aspects of popular poetry.)
- Haigwood, Laura E., "Oedipal Revolution in The Lyrical Ballads," The Centennial Review 33, no. 4 (fall 1989): 468-89. (Explores four poems from Lyrical Ballads in terms of their treatment of Oedipal themes.)
- McCracken, David, "Wordsworth's Doctrine of ‘Things as They Seem,’" The Wordsworth Circle 13, no. 4 (autumn 1982): 179-83. (Illustrates Wordsworth's own assertion that he aimed to portray essential truths in his poetry rather than mere appearances using several poems from Lyrical Ballads.)
- Owen, W. J. B., Introduction to Wordsworth's “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” pp. 11-30. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1957. (Provides an overview of the “Preface” of 1800, focusing on Wordsworth's ideas about rhetoric and his close connection to nature.)
- Page, Judith W., "Style and Rhetorical Intention in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads," Philological Quarterly 62, no. 3 (summer 1983): 293-313. (Asserts that in his effort to reform English poetry away from classical models, Wordsworth revived a much older form of poetic rhetoric in Lyrical Ballads.)
- Pinch, Adela, "Female Chatter: Meter, Masochism, and the Lyrical Ballads," Journal of English Literary History 55, no. 4 (winter 1988): 835-52. (Probes “masochism and meter” in the “Preface” and poetry of Lyrical Ballads.)
- Sampson, David, "Wordsworth and ‘The Deficiencies of Language,’" Journal of English Literary History 51, no. 1 (spring 1984): 53-68. (Contends that Wordsworth was more concerned with replacing formal poetic style with “low” rhetoric than he was in imitating the everyday speech of common people in Lyrical Ballads.)
- Shaffer, E. S., "Myths of ‘High’ and ‘Low’ in the Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998," Comparative Criticism 21 (1999): 35-57. (Analyzes the manner in which literary critics have approached the idea of “low” and “high” language and subject matter in the Lyrical Ballads, supplementing the discussion with examples of contemporary continental literature.)
- Venis, Linda, "The Problem of Broadside Balladry's Influence on the Lyrical Ballads," Studies in English Literature 24, no. 4 (autumn 1984): 617-32. (Examines the influence of broadside literature and chapbooks on Wordsworth's poetic theory and in Lyrical Ballads.)
- Winberg, Christine, "A Poet's Prose: The ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads,’" Unisa English Studies 29, no. 2 (September 1991): 18-28. (Suggests that Wordsworth's “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads proceeds metaphorically, symbolically, and through a poetic, rather than a rational, kind of logic.)
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