Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Lyrical Ballads


Related Topics

In the News (Wed 2 Dec 09)

  
  Pace, 'Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America' - The ...
The distinct allure of the Lyrical Ballads in America was its focus on the mind in a state of excitement.
Passing mention will be made of others who use the Ballads as a model for their own endeavors to bring about change, and an emphasis will be placed on the Harvard Unitarians' persona of Wordsworth and the adverse reactions to it expressed by Poe and Orestes Brownson.
Although Brownson's attacks were aimed at the Wordsworth of the Lyrical Ballads, this Wordsworth was the one after whom Dix modeled her own writing for changes in state legislation regarding the poor.
www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/lyrical/pace/wordsworth.html   (6765 words)

  
 Underwood, "How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds)", ...
I teach students who have done well in high school, and know perfectly well what a lyric poem is. A lyric, as you may know, is a condensed literary form in which a single speaker explores a process of thought or feeling.
Wordsworth's lyrics lack the imagistic riddle-structure they have learned to expect in written poems; by contrast, they appear sentimental and didactic.
I had reasoned that students already see the complexity in rock lyrics, and that it should only be necessary to connect popular culture to Romanticism in order to allow their existing proficiency in the lyric mode to spill over into the classroom.
www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/contemporary/underwood/underwood.html   (2690 words)

  
 Schneider - Lyrical Ballads and Beatles
Lennon and McCartney are the English lyric poets whose untutored language, formal experimentalism, rebellious image, and persistent return in their songs to the personal--by exploring love, childhood, and memory--transformed pop music from polite entertainment into our era's dominant medium for the establishment of a poetic individuality.
This anxiety to "suit the common taste" belies the confidence of Wordsworth's declaration in the preface to the Lyrical Ballads that the poems would "create the taste by which they were to be enjoyed." But Wordsworth's growing discomfort with the Ancient Mariner did not really arise from the supposedly off-putting "strangeness" of its language.
Lyric is the product of a struggle with an other; but, contra Harold Bloom and Emmanuel Levinas, that other is not necessarily a long-dead literary precursor or an ideal being into whom you cast all your fears and self-doubts.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/anthropoetics/ap0402/beat.htm   (4492 words)

  
 summary lyrical ballads: termpapersclub.com- a website club for term papers, essays, book reports downloads
In the 18th century, poetry has evolved into a different form with the emergence of lyrical ballads, a type of poetry popularized by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge in their volume collection of poems, entitled, “Lyrical Ballads,” written in 1798.
Lyrical poetry was inspired from ballads, which is a “form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by its presentation of a dramatic or exciting episode in simple narrative...
Looking for a term paper on "summary lyrical ballads?" termpapersclub.com can help you find a free term paper abstract on "summary lyrical ballads." termpapersclub.com can provide you with 3037 free abstracts from term paper written by the best students on your subject.
www.termpapersclub.com /term-papers/713420/summary-lyrical-ballads.html   (412 words)

  
 [No title]
Yet it is also vital for helping us to understand what Wordsworth and Coleridge were attempting in their collection of verse, and also provides us with a means of assessing how successfully the poems themselves live up to the standards outlined in the 'Preface'.
The 'Preface' covers a number of issues and is wide-ranging in its survey of the place of the Lyrical Ballads on the contemporary literary scene.
For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply.
www.newi.ac.uk /rdover/wworth/5a57d4d.htm   (438 words)

  
 Érudit | RON n26 2002 : Anderson : "Enjoyments, of a [. . .] more exquisite nature": Wordsworth and Commodity Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It does so by examining his unpublished poem "The Ruined Cottage" and his preface to Lyrical Ballads in two related contexts: the discourse of advertising and the history of consumer culture, including the institution of peddling.
2In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth proposes as a cure for the degradations of consumerism, with its "craving for extraordinary incident," the creation of a new taste, which, as he argues from Joshua Reynolds, is "an acquired talent" (156; emphasis added).
For, as he explains in the 1802 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, the one requirement of a poet is "the necessity of giving immediate pleasure to a human being" (139).
www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2002/v/n26/005697ar.html   (7835 words)

  
 Romanticism On the Net 9 (February 1998)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Dialogues are perhaps the most characteristic feature of 'Lyrical Ballads' 1798, which makes it all the more interesting that it should close with a monologue.
This might in turn suggest that the didactic first-person voice is resisted by other presences in the volume, and that the point of greatest resistance is the matter of poetic or linguistic unfamiliarity which (I have been arguing) 'Tintern Abbey' works to transcend.
After all, the life into which 'Lyrical Ballads' sees is freighted with obdurate strangenesses.
users.ox.ac.uk /~scat0385/innovationLB.html   (3776 words)

  
 Romanticism On the Net 9 (February 1998)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
We have keyed our texts to specific copies of Lyrical Ballads, with the intention of preserving all of the known printed textual variants, as well as recording the ways in which the collection itself changed from edition to edition.
Historians of printing, bibliographers, textual editors, and those interested in the publication history of Lyrical Ballads should find such an edition useful, both as a tool in their own research, and as a convenient means of teaching bibliographical and editorial skills to the next generation of scholars.
The alterations to Lyrical Ballads are not quite so striking, but they are no less interesting to the textual critic and the bibliographer.
users.ox.ac.uk /~scat0385/electronicLB.html   (4669 words)

  
 Island of Freedom - William Wordsworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
As he advanced in age, Wordsworth's poetic vision and inspiration dulled; his later, more rhetorical, moralistic poems cannot be compared to the lyrics of his youth, although a number of them are illumined by the spark of his former greatness.
Much of Wordsworth's easy flow of conversational blank verse has true lyrical power and grace, and his finest work is permeated by a sense of the human relationship to external nature that is religious in its scope and intensity.
To Wordsworth, God was everywhere manifest in the harmony of nature, and he felt deeply the kinship between nature and the soul of mankind.
www.island-of-freedom.com /WORDSWOR.HTM   (1129 words)

  
 Eighteenth-Century E-Texts -- W
Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition (Romantic Circles) — An astounding edition of Lyrical Ballads in its many editions, with collations, page images, a bibliography, and much more.
Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project (Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault) — Complete transcription with page images.
Lyrical Ballads Hypertext Project (Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault) — In-progress experimental edition.
newark.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/18th/w.html   (632 words)

  
 Lyrical Ballads of Coleridge and Wordsworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The period in which Coleridge and Wordsworth were writing was that of the politically charged atmosphere of the late eighteenth century as the revolutions of both America and France affected the consciousness of the time.
It was this intimacy as enthusiastic supporters of the revolution that led them to collaborate on the revolutionary Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798, helping to inaugurate the Romantic era in England.
As a new movement, the Lyrical Ballads incorporate a certain amount of instability in their contrivance of an unexplored poetic territory.
www.radessays.com /viewpaper/4905/Human_Resources.html   (259 words)

  
 [No title]
It strikes the reader as naive for Coleridge to be so certain of his decline, when so many adults today launch second careers, open successful businesses, and publish first novels, only after  their fortieth birthdays (Not that I would suggest that Coleridge might have opened a franchise.).
The poem announces its tone in the very title: "Dejection." The epigraph from the "Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence" recalls the storm which drowned the noble Scots who set out on a mission for the king despite the omens portending bad weather.
Nevertheless, it is the approaching storm that interests the poet more than the possibility of "coming to harm," as becomes apparent in the first stanza, where he sets the scene for his ode and describes an evening much like that in the ballad, right down to the description of the moon.
homepages.wmich.edu /~cooneys/tchg/640/papers/prot/Siferd.Coleridge.html   (3460 words)

  
 Samuel T. Coleridge
English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose LYRICAL BALLADS, written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement.
From it resulted Lyrical Ballads, which opened with Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and ended with Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey'.
LYRICAL BALLADS, 1789 (inc. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Frost at Midnight')
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /coleridg.htm   (1356 words)

  
 LYRICAL BALLADS WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH from Pickabook Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A classic children's history of Britain from the Romans to the death of Queen Victoria.
Charlie can't believe his luck when he finds a golden ticket and wins the trip of a lifetime around the famous factory.
Originally published 200 years ago, "Lyrical Ballads" is published here as it was compiled by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
www.pickabook.co.uk /details/0140437169/display.html   (210 words)

  
 The Rationale of Hypertext
Yet the ballad interested Burns exactly because it was an auditional text.
I could play for you a audio version of, say, Jean Redpath singing the ballad to a score imitating the ballad as Burns might have heard it sung.
We have had many fine editions of ballads and songs since the late eighteenth-century, but none has been able to accommodate, except in minimal ways, the auditional features of the texts.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu /public/jjm2f/rationale.html   (8510 words)

  
 Literary Resources -- Romantic (Lynch)
Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition (Romantic Circles)
Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project (Ron Tetreault and Bruce Graver, Dalhousie)
Lyrical Ballads Hypertext Project (Bruce Graver and Ronald Tetreault)
andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Lit/romantic.html   (2498 words)

  
 D. Conger: Wordsworth's Women
The feeling, in Lyrical Ballads, informs the poem, giving "importance to the action and situation, and not the action and situation to the feeling" (1800 Preface 6); thus, Betty completes the poetic project.
We must remember that Wordsworth's purpose in the Lyrical Ballads was that the poet should "let himself slip into an entire delusion, and even confound and identify his own feelings with theirs [the character's]; modifying only the language" (1800 Preface 14).
Moreover, the little boy, not the mother, is associated with "flesh and blood," an integral element of Lyrical Ballads.
prometheus.cc.emory.edu /panels/2D/Conger.html   (3705 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Search Results Books: lyrical ballads with other poems 1800   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800: Vol 1
Lyrical Ballads With Other Poems 1800 Volume I
Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800: Vol 2
textual.net /link.to/amazon.co.uk/lyrical.ballads.with.other.poems.1800   (59 words)

  
 Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (New Riverside Editions) by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Daniel ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (New Riverside Editions) by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Daniel Robinson, Paul Lauter, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0618107320
In addition to the complete 1798 London edition of Lyrical Ballads, this volume contains a generous sampling of ballads, rustic and humanitarian poetry, and nature poems by the poets' contemporaries; literary, philosophical, and political backgrounds by essayists such as Rousseau, Adam Smith, and Wollstonecraft; and reactions to Lyrical Ballads.
Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (By Daniel Robinson)
www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0618107320.html   (230 words)

  
 William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798.
When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style, Wordsworth focused on the nature, children, the poor, common people, and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings.
Wordsworth's financial situation became better in 1795 when he received a legacy and was able to settle at Racedown, Dorset, with his sister Dorothy.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /wordswor.htm   (1075 words)

  
 William Wordsworth - Biography and Works
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
William Wordsworth was born on April 17, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District.
Encouraged by Coleridge and stimulated by the close contact with nature, Wordsworth composed his first masterwork, Lyrical Ballads, which opened with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner." About 1798 he started to write a large and philosophical autobiographical poem, completed in 1805, and published posthumously in 1850 under the title The Prelude.
www.online-literature.com /wordsworth   (746 words)

  
 BBC - Lancashire Going out - In the Spotlight
Organic in inception, fresh as the day it was picked and bottled in a protective atmosphere that may well contain nuts a heady brew of poetry, prose, performance and song awaits as Spotlight returns...
Poet Carol Coates spent many years in academe, during which time she published critical and professional work, including an edition of Wordsworth and Colleridge's Lyrical Ballads, and John Cowper Powys in Search of a Landscape.
Originating from Liverpool and now living in Lancaster as a student at the university Martin started singing live a year ago and took a chance on Spotlight's Open Mic back in July with his 'Postman Song'.
www.bbc.co.uk /lancashire/going_out/2005/09/12/spotlight.shtml   (345 words)

  
 [No title]
text version LYRICAL BALLADS: FIRST EDITION William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Editor's note: This is the original version of /Lyrical Ballads/, taken from the first anonymous Bristol imprint of 1798.
No attempt has been made to correct the text, with the exception that the corrections indicated on the original errata slip have been made.
Now wilt thou then forget, That after many wanderings, many years Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, And this green pastoral landscape, were to me More dear, both for themselves, and for thy sake.
eserver.org /poetry/lyrical-ballads.txt   (16930 words)

  
 William Wordsworth Study questions, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Tintern Abbey and Other Poems
William Wordsworth Study questions, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Tintern Abbey and Other Poems
Wordsworth's "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" may be read as a treatise that displaces the French Revolution's three main ideals (liberty, equality, fraternity) into a theory about the way in which poetry is composed and the effects it ought to have.
The three stages of what M.H. Abrams has called "The Greater Romantic Lyric" are a) description of the scene; b) analysis of the scene's significance with regard to the problem that troubles the poet; and c) affective resolution of the problem that has been articulated.
www.ajdrake.com /e212_sum_04/materials/authors/wordsworth_sq.htm   (1013 words)

  
 British Lit: Lyrical Ballads to Silas Marner on CD-ROM from CDAccess.com
British Lit: Lyrical Ballads to Silas Marner on CD-ROM from CDAccess.com
A View of British Literature from Lyrical Ballads to Silas Marner
Explores British literary history from the advent of Romanticism to the first half of the Victorian era, when empire building and colonial expansion dominated Britain's foreign affairs.
www.cdaccess.com /html/shared/blsilas.htm   (112 words)

  
 Lyrical Ballads Advertisement and Preface
This opinion may be further illustrated by appealing to the Reader's own experience of the reluctance with which he comes to the re-perusal of the distressful parts of Clarissa Harlowe, or the Gamester.
And I have the satisfaction of knowing that it has been communicated to many hundreds of people who would never have heard of it, had it not been narrated as a Ballad, and in a more impressive metre than is usual in Ballads.
The only strict antithesis to Prose is Metre; nor is this, in truth, a strict antithesis; because lines and passages of metre so naturally occur in writing prose, that it would be scarcely possible to avoid them, even were it desirable.
www.english.upenn.edu /%7Emgamer/Etexts/lbprose.html   (5050 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.