
Lyrical Ballads (Longman Annotated Texts)
Routledge
ISBN13:
9781138151147
$199.99
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a unique work of literature. first published in 1798, it marked a radical change in the direction of English Literature. Lyrical Ballads represented a movement away from the overwrought, highly formal and learned verse of the 18th century and in so doing ushered in a new, more democratic poetic era. Written in the language of the common man and addressing the concerns of the common man, Lyrical Ballads was the first - and remains the most - truly revolutionary collection of poetry, paving the way for the great Romantic poets - keats, Byron, Shelley et al. - and proving that, while there was no actual revolution on the ground, England could still be the most revolutionary of places. Lyrical Ballads was not a single phenomenon but a sequence of four editions spread over seven years; its appearance in English literature was not a historical moment but a sequence of moments - 1798, 1800, 1802, 1805. This edition - based on the 1805 edition, but looking back on each of the previous publications - shows how this collection developed, how it was refined and added to by the authors. No other edition on the market has such a wealth of key background information.
- | Author: Michael Mason
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 446 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1138151149
- | ISBN-13: 9781138151147
- Author:
- Michael Mason
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Sep 01, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 446 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1138151149
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138151147