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.