And this is what Lyrical Ballads is all about. Mackerness Plymouth: The Guernsey Press, , Butler and Green, ; aEssay, Supplementary to the Preface «, ed. Owen and Smyser , III, Baker, VII: In Two Volumes, in Lyrical Ballads : and , ed. Owen, W. Owen, IX, W. Literary Criticism of William Wordsworth , ed.
Zall , Lincoln , Neb. Lyrical Ballads , : ed. Hutchinson , London , ; ed. Littledale , Oxford , ; ed.
Owen , London , , This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the and the editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety.
The Publication of the Lyrical Ballads , A Decade of Years. Poems , Lyrical Ballads , with Other Poems. Malcolm Heath It has been pointed out that Aristotle did not say what is attributed to him by Wordsworth, who must have heard it from Coleridge. Wordsworth, however, acquired first-hand acquaintance with the Poetics when he wrote Prelude as evidenced in Emphasis mine.
I cannot take up the matter here. Yet a few words are necessary to underline the validity of the point. The view held by an overwhelming majority of teachers and students of English literature, not to speak of the wider reading public, is that the hallmark of Romanticism is love of nature. More often than not nature is the backdrop of some poems, against which the human drama is enacted.
As to Wordsworth, it will be salutary to pay attention to what J. Watson says: Wordsworth is always known as the poet of nature. There is something rather strange about this, because he thought of himself as writing principally about man: the Mind of Man — My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Preface to The Excursion, ll. When he is considered alongside the other Romantic poets, what is so extraordinary about Wordsworth is not his evocation of nature but his insight into the nature of man, both individually and in society.
His poetry is filled with characters, as sharply defined as those in Greek tragedy and sometimes as tragically : Michael at the sheepfold, the Solitary [sic! The Solitary Reaper? Watson goes on developing this theme more elaborately and effectively. But there is no need for further confirmation of his basic contention. Mason The avidity with which Keats used to read and listen to Hunt and the marks it left upon his poetic style and diction Chatterjee , McGann lends support to this view.
Apart from Coleridge, there had been others who, working under a different motive, found fault with the democratization of the language of poetry and the tendency to give short shrift to the so-called poetic diction. In both cases the more traditional critics insist that a common lexicon and a colloquial style in poetry are only proper within certain prescribed — normally comic — limits McGann Several scholarly and popular editions of the texts of Lyrical Ballads along with the Prefaces are available on the web as well in print for instance, those edited by R.
There are, however, no significant improvements upon or radical departure from the texts previously edited by Campbell or Owen and Smyser. Works Cited Abrams, M. Michael Fischer. New York and London: W.
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Lyrical Ballads: Critical Perspective. Houndsmills and London: Macmillan, Chatterjee, Bhabatosh. John Keats: His Mind and Work.
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