Response to Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation: "Engaged and refreshingly direct ... this is criticism which discusses craft and concept with equal facility and insight." Romanticism
byRichard Gravil
Published: 01 September 2008
This book places Wordsworth's revolutionary poetic practice, in Lyrical Ballads, in the context of a revolutionary age. It considers Wordsworth's provocative theories of how poetry should work, and includes a treatment of the famous 'Preface' to Lyrical Ballads, one of the great poetic manifestos. The main part of the book offers illuminating commentary and questions on the poems. A final section discusses contemporary, Victorian and recent critical approaches to Wordsworth and includes an annotated guide to further reading.
Richard Gravil''s books include Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (St Martin’s, 2000), Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842 (Palgrave, 2003). He is Conference Director of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation.
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