Wordsworth & Coleridge Lyrical Ballads - Softcover

William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415063884 ISBN 13: 9780415063883

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

This is a comprehensively revised second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together. It contains the complete text of one of the most important documents of the Romantic movement - now with new introduction, textual variants and fully up-dated, copious notes.

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Review:

"It is an edition of a formative work which all students and lovers of English poetry will warmly welcome.." From the reviews of the first edition -"The Times Educational Supplement

About the Author:

Coleridge (1772-1834) has been criticized as a political turn-coat, drug addict and plagiarist whose wrecked career left only a handful of magical early poems. But the shaping influence of his highly imaginative criticism is now generally accepted,and his position, along with Wordsworth (1770-1850), as one of the two great progenitors of the English Romantic spirit is assured. A great innovator, Wordsworth permanently enlarged the range of English poetry both in subject matter and treatment.

Michael Schmidt is Professor of English and Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of the critical history LIVES OF THE POETS (1999), THE STORY OF POETRY (five volumes, 2001-), and THE FIRST POETS: LIVES OF THE ANCIENT GREEK POETS.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0415063884
• ISBN 13: 9780415063883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: R.L. Brett, A.R. Jones