Open AccessHow Revolutionary Was <i>Lyrical Ballads</i> (1798-1800)?
Author(s) -
Juan Pellicer
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
nordic journal of english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.18
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1654-6970
pISSN - 1502-7694
DOI - 10.35360/njes.64
Subject(s) - ballad , english language , order (exchange) , political science , field (mathematics) , media studies , history , humanities , economic history , literature , art , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , poetry , economics , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics
In the traditional account of literary Romanticism in Britain, Lyrical Ballads is considered the seminal, inspirational work. The first edition of October 1798, published anonymously in Bristol by the young Wordsworth and Coleridge, has been said to be 'the only literary publication (as opposed to political event or turn of a century) that has been used to mark the beginning of a period in either English or American literature' (Stillinger 2000: 70). The 'Advertisement' which headed the book stressed the experimental nature of the poems, which were claimed to have been
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