Poems, in two volumes 1807 /
Published five years after William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's popular collection Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth's Poems, in Two Volumes shocked readers and drew scornful reviews. Poems was a revolutionary challenge to literary taste in revolution-weary times. The poems were perc...
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| Language: | English |
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Peterborough, Ontario :
Broadview Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | Published five years after William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's popular collection Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth's Poems, in Two Volumes shocked readers and drew scornful reviews. Poems was a revolutionary challenge to literary taste in revolution-weary times. The poems were perceived as inappropriately personal, "puerile" and egotistical in the attention that the poet pays to "moods of [his own] mind." The collection is now seen as containing some of the most enduring works of British Romantic poetry, and Wordsworth's achievement in opening up new worlds of subject matter, emotion and poetic expression is widely recognized. |
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| Physical Description: | 301 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-301). |
| ISBN: | 9781554811243 (paperback) 1554811244 (paperback) |