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William Wordsworth

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Lyrical Ballads

6,103 words, approx. 21 pages

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Born in West Cumberland, England, in 1770, William Wordsworth was educated at a local school in Hawkshead in the heart of the Engli... Read more

Lyrical Ballads

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Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 2

22,733 words, approx. 76 pages

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Lyrical Ballads 1798

18,118 words, approx. 61 pages

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Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1

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William Wordsworth Biography (4)

William Wordsworth

13,377 words, approx. 45 pages

Biography EssayAlthough William Wordsworth is now regarded as the central poet of his age, during his lifetime Byron or Scott, and later Tennyson, received more popular acclaim. Even readers in the ni... Read more

William Wordsworth

2,589 words, approx. 9 pages

William Wordsworth (1770-1850), an early leader of romanticism in English poetry, ranks as one of the greatest lyric poets in the history of English literature.William Wordsworth was born in Cookermou... Read more

William Wordsworth

12,130 words, approx. 41 pages

Although William Wordsworth is now regarded as the central poet of his age, during his lifetime Byron or Scott, and later Tennyson, received more popular acclaim. Even readers in the nineteenth centur... Read more

William Wordsworth

5,316 words, approx. 18 pages

Discussing prose written by poets, Joseph Brodsky has remarked, "the tradition of dividing literature into poetry and prose dates from the beginnings of prose, since it was only in prose that such a d... Read more

Essays & Analysis (17)

Critical Essay by The Spectator

1,807 words, approx. 7 pages

In the following review, the anonymous author praises Edward Dowden's reprint edition of Lyrical Ballads, asserting that Wordsworth's literary influence has been more enduring than that ... Read more

Critical Essay by Stephen Parrish

6,893 words, approx. 23 pages

In the following essay, Parrish examines Coleridge's understanding of the ballad form, both as seen through his collaboration with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads and through his notion of the su... Read more

Critical Essay by Susan Eilenberg

7,772 words, approx. 26 pages

In the following essay, Eilenberg examines the substitution of Wordsworth's “Michael” in place of Coleridge's “Christabel” as the last poem in the 1800 editio... Read more

Critical Essay by Patrick Campbell

14,671 words, approx. 49 pages

In the following excerpt, Campbell provides an overview of critical reaction to Lyrical Ballads from earliest responses to the 1990s. Campbell then sketches the social and political context in which t... Read more

Critical Essay by Susan Eilenberg

11,921 words, approx. 40 pages

In the following excerpt, Eilenberg focuses on Wordsworth's “Lucy” poems as they reflect his sense of loss and his relationship to nature and his own poetry. The economy of the Lu... Read more

Critical Essay by Thomas Pfau

9,549 words, approx. 32 pages

In the following essay, Pfau provides a revisionist reading of the “Preface” to the Lyrical Ballads, looking past the traditional connotations of the Romantic verbiage that Wordsworth em... Read more

Critical Essay by Yu Liu

5,943 words, approx. 20 pages

In the following essay, Liu examines the influence of the French Revolution on Wordsworth's poetry in Lyrical Ballads, suggesting that he attempted to work out his personal and political respon... Read more

Critical Essay by Jane Stabler

9,848 words, approx. 33 pages

In the following essay, Stabler discusses Lyrical Ballads in the context of British satirical writings against the perceived threat of Jacobinism. An enhanced sense of the dynamics of satire in the Ro... Read more

Critical Essay by Scott McEathron

9,203 words, approx. 31 pages

In the following essay, McEathron discusses Wordsworth's appropriation and reworking of the popular “peasant poetry” phenomenon for use in the Lyrical Ballads. One of the unwritte... Read more

Critical Essay by The Athenæum

2,867 words, approx. 10 pages

In the following review, the anonymous author notes that Lyrical Ballads did not meet with the critical response it deserved when originally published and recommends a closer study of the poems to hig... Read more

Critical Essay by Marjorie Latta Barstow

12,626 words, approx. 43 pages

In the following excerpt, Barstow discusses Wordsworth's experimental use of the language of common individuals in Lyrical Ballads, noting that his attempt to reflect psychological states throu... Read more

Critical Essay by Roger N. Murray

3,724 words, approx. 13 pages

In the following excerpt, Murray explores Wordsworth's use of illusory imagery in the Lyrical Ballads of 1800, emphasizing that the poet employs this technique to make a connection between the ... Read more

Critical Essay by Donald Davie

10,145 words, approx. 34 pages

In the following essay, Davie discusses Wordsworth's emphasis on the pleasure of perception as the hallmark of his poetry, placing the poet's ideas in the context of classical and Romant... Read more

Critical Essay by Stephen Maxfield Parrish

13,944 words, approx. 47 pages

In the following excerpt, Parrish maintains that in the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 and 1800, Wordsworth combined eighteenth-century traditions of the ballad and pastoral genres. One nearly forgotten epis... Read more

Critical Essay by Stephen Prickett

11,883 words, approx. 40 pages

In the following excerpt, Prickett highlights several key poems of the Lyrical Ballads as contributing to the unity of this collection. So much for the barebones story of the Lyrical Ballads. But what... Read more

Critical Essay by Mary Jacobus

9,934 words, approx. 34 pages

In the following excerpt, Jacobus provides a detailed reading of Wordsworth's Salisbury Plain, noting that the poem is pivotal because it signals the poet's growing awareness of the real... Read more

Critical Essay by Heather Glen

14,958 words, approx. 50 pages

In the following excerpt, Glen compares selected poems from the 1798 Lyrical Ballads with William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. But since a certain inequality of situation is neces... Read more

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William Wordsworth