Lyrical Ballads : a collection of poems by Wordsworth & Coleridge.
... author at a further distance. The first of the two poems of Wordsworth just mentioned formed part of the book named Lyrical Ballads which came out in 1798, much before Hugo's splash into poetry, though not earlier than Rousseau's famous Romanticist books in prose. Lyrical Ballads was the joint work of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Cole-ridge had The Ancient Mariner in this publication and it was... as that other of Wordsworth's. But Wordsworth was the more powerful, more comprehensive, more harmonised poet and he is the more central figure and it was his Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads that constituted the first Manifesto of English Roman-ticism. Like Hugo's championship of common words, Wordsworth had his demand for normal speech in poetry instead of what had been practised... Poetic Diction and there is a false Poetic Diction. I shall illustrate both. But let me finish first with the fight over Wordsworth's innovation in poetry and over Romanticism in general. Lyrical Ballads was attacked in the periodical which was then pontificating on poetic values, the periodical entitled The Quarter-ly Review. A very dogmatic and downright reviewer, one Francis Jeffrey, started ...
... Their acquaintance soon ripened into the friendship that has linked their names, together with Dorothy's, in a spiritual partnership unique in literary biography. That partnership produced the Lyrical Ballads first published anonymously in 1798. At the end of 1799, Wordsworth and Dorothy returned to the Lake District at Grasmere, Westmorland. This spot more than any other is associated with the... thought "what happy fortune were it here to live". In 1802 he married Mary Hutchinson, a childhood friend. Critics consider this period of Wordsworth's life (1796-1806) as his greatest. The Lyrical Ballads, the "Lucy" poems, The Prelude and Intimations of Immortality were all written during this period. Wordsworth lived on until 1850, during which time he was awarded many honours including Poet... to perpetuate the notion that "Romantic" refers directly, even solely, to their poetry. These were Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. William Wordsworth's "Preface" to his Lyrical Ballads is considered the manifesto of the Romantic movement from a poet's viewpoint. The following extracts are taken from this essay, and describe what Wordsworth, as well as the other poets of the ...
... undoubtedly the central figure in the Romantic Movement in England, Even Coleridge's claim to this honour is rejected though the Indian critic concedes that The Ancient Mariner included in Lyrical Ballads is as organic to the new Romantic Movement as the poems of Wordsworth. As poet, * Sethna's book on the subject concerned is awaiting publication. - Editors Page 278 ... than one reason: "But Wordsworth was the more powerful, more comprehensive, was more hannonised poet and he is the more central figure and it was his Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads that constituted the first Manifesto of English Romanticism," (p. 72) The unevenness of Wordsworth's poetry, which Sethna refers to as "Wordsworth's double poetic character" has ...
... serve as a point d'appui for the poet's effort at communication? Else we shall be obliged to reject Lycidas as no poetry because Dr. Johnson found it crude and unmelodious, Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads as sheer metricised prose because Jeffreys remarked, "This will never do", Shelley's work as valueless because Matthew Arnold shook his head about it, Swinburne's early lyrics as meretricious ...
... serve as a point d'appui for the poet 's effort at communication. Else we shall be obliged to reject Lycidas as no poetry because Dr. Johnson found it crude and unmelodious, Wordsworth 's Lyrical Ballads as sheer prose because Jeffreys remarked, "This will never do". Shelley's work as valueless because Matthew Arnold shook his head about it, Swinburne's early lyrics as meretricious stuff because ...
... the French Academy on 25 August 1753. 77Letter to Robert Lloyd (October 1798), Th e Poetry and Prose of Coleridge, Lamb and Leigh Hunt (The Christ's Hospital Anthology, 1920), 150. 78 Lyrical Ballads (1798). Page 41 For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. I'm sure all of you young children do pray, and all your prayers do certainly spring ...
... transition from the eighteenth century or Augustan style of poetry to the nineteenth-century style; i.e. to say almost all the tendencies of poetry between the death of Pope and the production of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798 are to be found in Gray's writings. Of the other poets of the time, Johnson & Goldsmith mark the last development of the Augustan style, while Collins, Blake, Cowper, Burns, Chatterton ...
... cut it out because it detained the reader too long from the real subject and precluded, rather than prepared for, the subsequent reference to Plato. His principle, as declared in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, was that the poet should never "interweave a foreign splendour of his own with that which the passion naturally suggests". Hence, on the side of matter and substance, spontaneity lay in avoiding ...
... to serve as a point d'appui for the poet's effort at communication? Else we shall be obliged to reject Lycidas as no poetry because Dr. Johnson found it crude and unmelodious, Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads as sheer metricised prose because Jeffreys remarked, "This will never do", Shelley's work as valueless because Matthew Arnold shook his head about it, Swinburne's early lyrics as meretricious ...
... critics and went on into a serene and even stolid old age filled with the acclamations of a new epoch of critics and crowned with the Poet-Laureateship. Nobody could say any more that in his Lyrical Ballads there was not a word's worth of poetry! There was also acceptance of the contention in his provocative Page 75 Preface that the worth of a word did not lie in its being remote ...
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