Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Introduction PART 1: LYRICAL BALLADS: THE CURRENT OF OPINION Contemporaneous Criticism: the Magazines Victorian and Later Criticism: some Trends PART 2: CRITICISM IN CONTEXT, 1797-8 The Social and Political Background Biographical Considerations: Collaboration or Conflict? The Philosophical Context Literary Influences PART 3: LYRICAL BALLADS: RECENT INTERPRETATIVE STANCES Formalist Approaches: 'The Bridle of Pegasus' The Issue of 'Genre' Psychoanalytical Perspectives Marxist, Historicist and Problematic Readings PART 4: LYRICAL BALLADS: CRITICISM OF THE MAJOR POEMS 'The Ancient Mariner' 'Tintern Abbey' 'The Thorn' 'The Idiot Boy' PART 5: THE POET AS CRITIC: THE PREFACE (1800) PART 6: PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES: THE 'OTHER' LYRICAL BALLADS Three Ballads Two Laments 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' 'Simon Lee' Two Expostulatory Pieces Two Credal Lyrics Two Anecdotes 'The Nightingale' PART 7: FROM ADVERTISEMENT TO ALBATROSS: UNITY OR DIVERSITY? Bibliography Index.

About the Author

PATRICK CAMPBELL is a principle lecturer in English at Middlesex Polytechnic and has written several articles which range from Tennyson, Shakespeare and Siegfried Sassoon to the work of the rock 'n' roll singer Ian Dury.