Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads: Critical Perspectives

By Patrick Campbell

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 Though the judgments of the periodicals and the ensuing authorial reaction have long since been superseded by a plethora of scholarly interpretations, the debate still focuses on their elusive, paradoxical character.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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333522591
• ISBN13: 9780333522592
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"