
Why the Lyrical Ballads? illuminates the background, making, and distinctive character of Wordsworth's 1798 experiment by tracking a recurrent "common resonance" across poems, prefaces, and critical contexts. John E. Jordan's lucid study resists a single, neat thesis;...

Why the Lyrical Ballads? illuminates the background, making, and distinctive character of Wordsworth's 1798 experiment by tracking a recurrent "common resonance" across poems, prefaces, and critical contexts. John E. Jordan's lucid study resists a single, neat thesis;...