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

Wordsworth, William; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840225351 ISBN 13: 9781840225358

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 2002

Synopsis

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield.

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.

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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 mediation. Both poets look with a fresh and visionary eye at the human and 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 poets other work across their poetic careers, including virtually all their best known and most discussed shorter poems.

From the Back Cover:

·
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT
· MARINER KUBLA KHAN
·
FROST AT MIDNIGHT
·
THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON
·
DEJECTION: AN ODE

The poetic output of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was modest and fragmentary, but included some of the greatest poems of the Romantic period. On this recording Sir Ralph Richardson reads five of Coleridge's finest works, ranging in style from the haunting narrative of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' to the dark and mysterious 'Kubla Khan' and the quietly reflective 'Frost at Midnight'.

About this edition

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