William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems
Автор:William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge Год: 2003 Издание:Wordsworth Editions Limited Страниц: 352 ISBN: 9781840225358 "Lyrical Ballads" (1798-1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's and Coleridge's other major poems were central to the Romantic period and remain classic texts in our own time. Wordsworth focuses on 'the essential passions of the heart' and achieves a penetrating insight into love and death, solitude and community. Coleridge explores a more fantastic and dreamlike imagination and also writes poems of quiet conversational meditation. Both poets look with a fresh and visionary eye at the human and the natural world. They examine the condition of men and women at the extreme edge of society; they are also subtle analysts of their own minds and the processes of introspection and memory. This volume contains all of "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) with Wordsworth's "Preface" of 1800/1802, and a wide-ranging selection of both poets' other work, including virtually all of their...
