Wordsworth

by John Reay Watson

The appearance of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798) and of Wordsworth's preface to the second edition (1800) have generally been regarded as the first major landmark of a new era in English literature. The authors announced a fresh approach to poetry, their purpose being 'to throw over incidents taken from common life a certain colouring of the imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented in an unusual aspect...' In these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853836388
• ISBN13: 9780853836384
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 69 Pages