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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Analysing texts |
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Analysing texts (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
Some Important Events During the Lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Analysing Lyrical Ballads -- Childhood and the Growth of the Mind -- 'Lucy Gray' -- 'We are seven' -- 'There was a Boy' -- 'Nutting' -- Imagination -- 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey' -- 'The Nightingale' -- 'Love' -- Old Age: a 'vital anxiousness' -- Michael: A Pastoral Poem -- 'The Old Cumberland Beggar' -- 'The Fountain' -- Social Issues: 'the mean and vulgar works of man' -- 'The Convict' -- 'The Female Vagrant' -- 'The Thorn' -- Nature and the Supernatural: 'the strangeness of it' -- 'Lines written in early spring' -- 'The Tables Turned' -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -- The Context and the Critics -- The Politics of Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Wordsworth and the 'Rabble-rousers' -- Coleridge and dreams of Utopia -- 1798 and after -- Reading and Writing in Eighteenth-Century England -- Publishing, printing and book-selling -- Effects on writers -- Readers: education and literacy -- The Ballad revival -- The Poet as Critic and Theorist -- Wordsworth and 'pre-established codes of decision' -- 'five hundred Sir Isaac Newtons': Coleridge's literary theory -- Dorothy Wordsworth and the Lake Poets -- Dorothy among the poets -- 'more than half a poet': home at Alfoxden and Grasmere -- Dorothy herself: 'Come forth and feel the sun' -- Critical Responses to Lyrical Ballads -- I.A. Richards -- Robert Mayo -- Geoffrey H. Hartman -- Paul de Man |
| Summary |
Detailed analysis of the poems is closely grounded in the historical and literary contexts in which ''Lyrical Ballads'' was first conceived and realized. John Blades traces the history of the work over the two centuries since first publication |
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Lyrical ballads.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. fast (OCoLC)fst00029081 |
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Wordsworth, William <Schriftsteller> swd |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. swd |
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Lyrical ballads (Wordsworth, William) fast (OCoLC)fst01786489 |
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Lyrical ballads. swd |
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Romanticism -- England
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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English poetry.
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Romanticism.
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137130945 |
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1137130946 |
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0230801978 |
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9780230801974 |
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