This reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets presents a detailed examination of both writers' debts to radical dissent in the years before 1789. It explores their active participation with popular reform movements.
In this volume the finest works of the first generation of Romantic Poets Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge are assembled in an accessible and yet scholarly manner, together with a selection of contemporary criticism by tradition-oriented ...
Originally put together by Wordsworth and Coleridge, this publication of English poetry, includes Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey.
Interspersed throughout the book, his images bridge the centuries, depicting lives at the source of our modern sensibility: a psychic landscape of doubt and possibility, full of beauty and thick with desire for a kind of connectedness that ...
This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the 'Lyrical Ballads' as they appeared to Coleridge's and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems.
Ed. W.J.B. Owen and Jane Worthington Smyser. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. ———. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802).” Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1802. Ed. Fiona Stafford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 95–116. ———.
Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only five poems to the collection, including one of his most famous works, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
This is a comprehensively revised second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together.
Beginning with the publication of their joint collection of poems Lyrical Ballads in 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were instrumental in helping to establish the Romantic Movement as a major force in nineteenth century ...
J. Robert Barth suggests that we may look to Coleridge for the theoretical grounding of the view of religious imagination proposed in this book, but that it is in Wordsworth above all that we see this imagination at work."--Jacket.
West Country Poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge