Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads
Critical Perspectives
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism
| Author: | P. Campbell | ISBN: | 9781349215645 |
| Publisher: | Macmillan Education UK | Publication: | September 23, 1991 |
| Imprint: | Red Globe Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | P. Campbell |
| ISBN: | 9781349215645 |
| Publisher: | Macmillan Education UK |
| Publication: | September 23, 1991 |
| Imprint: | Red Globe Press |
| Language: | English |
Lyrical Ballads have always been wedded to controversy. Though the judgments of the periodicals and the ensuing authorial reaction have long since been superseded by a plethora of scholarly interpretations, the debate still focuses on their elusive, paradoxical character. Are the poems traditional or experimental, a random collocation or an organised sequence? Patrick Campbell surveys the critical fluctuations of nearly two centuries while privileging recent approaches which have sought fresh perspectives on the volume - contextual, formalist and genre based, psycho-analytic, materialist, maverick.
Lyrical Ballads have always been wedded to controversy. Though the judgments of the periodicals and the ensuing authorial reaction have long since been superseded by a plethora of scholarly interpretations, the debate still focuses on their elusive, paradoxical character. Are the poems traditional or experimental, a random collocation or an organised sequence? Patrick Campbell surveys the critical fluctuations of nearly two centuries while privileging recent approaches which have sought fresh perspectives on the volume - contextual, formalist and genre based, psycho-analytic, materialist, maverick.
