William Wordsworth : 'Lyrical ballads' / Richard Gravil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gravil, Richard.

Series:

Humanities Insights

Literature insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Lyrical ballads.

Wordsworth, William.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] ; Penrith, Calif. : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Places Wordsworth s revolutionary poetic practice, in Lyrical Ballads, in the context of a revolutionary age. It deals mainly with the 1798 edition, but also covers selected poems from 1800. Part 1 (Life, Times, Themes) sets Lyrical Ballads in the context of Wordsworth life and his age, for instance Wordsworth in France. Part 2, Literary Strategies, considers Wordsworth s provocative theories of how poetry should work, and includes a treatment of the famous Preface to Lyrical Ballads, one of the great poetic manifestos. Part 3 offers illuminating commentary and questions on the following poems: We are seven, Anecdote for fathers, Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, To my sister, Lines written in Early Spring, Expostulation and Reply, The Tables Turned;, The Female Vagrant, Goody Blake and Harry Gill, The Last of the Flock, The Mad Mother, The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman, The Convict, Old Man travelling, Simon Lee, The Idiot Boy, TheThorn, Tintern Abbey, Hart-leap Well, There was a boy, Nutting, The Lucy Poems, The Brothers and Michael . Part 4, on Critical Reception, discusses contemporary, Victorian and recent critical approaches to Wordsworth and includes an annotated guide to further reading."

Contents:

pt. 1. Life, times, themes

pt. 2. Literary strategies

pt. 3. Reading lyrical ballads

pt. 4. Critical reception.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-04012-X

9786612040122

1-84760-009-3

OCLC:

697474353