Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads: Critical Perspectives

Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads: Critical Perspectives
ISBN-10
1350317918
ISBN-13
9781350317918
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
1991-09-23
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
P. Campbell

Description

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 Though the judgments of the periodicals and the ensuing authorial reaction have long since been superseded by a plethora of scholarly interpretations, the debate still focuses on their elusive, paradoxical character.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.

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