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"A Natural Delineation of Human Passions"
The Historic Moment of Lyrical Ballads
Series: - DQR Studies in Literature Online, Volume: 34
- DQR Studies in Literature, Volume: 34
Volume Editor:
Most of the articles in A Natural Delineation of Human Passionsâ originated in the Twelfth October Conference held in Leiden to celebrate the bicentenary of the publication of Lyrical Ballads. The first article, by the editor, âAn Historic Moment: âA Natural Delineation of Human Passionsâ as a âNew Moralityâ?â, attempts to establish an historic and an historical context, both personal and political, for the six articles that follow, by Ã
ke Bergvall, Myra Cottingham, C.P. Seabrook Wilkinson, James McGonigal, Jacqueline Schoemaker, and Suzanne E. Webster, which consider the themes of vagrancy and wandering in Lyrical Ballads, the expression of loss and compensation, and the consequences, both beneficial and perilous, for the language and rhetoric of poetry. Then three articles, by Annemarie Estor, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, and Paul E.A. van Gestel, consider the ambience of science and philosophy in which Wordsworth and Coleridge strove to affirm the creative participation of poetry. After this, Jacqueline M. Labbe, Titus P. Bicknell, Robert Druce, and M. Van Wyk Smith discuss the parallel contributions of some of the more neglected contemporaries of the authors of Lyrical Ballads, not necessarily in English nor necessarily in England â Mary Robinson, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Bloomfield and Thomas Pringle. The volume concludes with an extended examination by Timothy Webb of the responses, both admiring and scornful, of the younger generation of Romantics to the legacy of Lyrical Ballads.
âThe scope of the collection is impressively broad. [â¦] Barfootâs wide-ranging collection of essays is a valuable aide to an understanding of this âhistoric momentâ.â in: Times Literary Supplement, October 22, 2004
Preface
1 C.C. BARFOOT: An Historic Moment: âA Natural Delineation of Human Passionsâ as a âNew Moralityâ?
2 Ã ke BERGVALL: Tradition and Individual Talent in Lyrical Ballads
3 Myra COTTINGHAM: The Language of Loss and the Loss of Language in Wordsworthâs Lyrical Ballads
4 C.P. SEABROOK WILKINSON: Wordsworthâs Artless Tale: âThe Female Vagrantâ
5 James McGONICAL: Wordsworthâs Narratology of Footsteps: âChildishâ Writing in Lyrical Ballads
6 Jacqueline SCHOEMAKER: Travel, Homecoming and Wavering Minds in Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems
7 Susanne E. WEBSTER: âThe Rime of the Ancyent Marinereâ: Unfair Dismissal?
8 Annemarie ESTOR: âWe Murder to Dissectâ: A Philosophy of Science in Lyrical Ballads
9 Daniel Sanjiv ROBERTS: Literature, Medical Science and Politics, 1795-1800: Lyrical Ballads and Currieâs Works of Robert Burns
10 Paul E.A. van GESTEL: Coleridge, Priestley and Dissent
11 Jacqueline M. LABBE: Romance and Violence in Mary Robinsonâs Lyrical Tales and Other Gothic Poetry
12 Titus P. BICKNELL: Persona Non Grata: Walter Savage Landorâs Expulsion from the Literary Schools
13 Robert DRUCE: âWhite Fields Shall Bloom, Thy Name Shall Liveâ: Robert Bloomfieldâs Short-Lived Fame
14 M. Van WYK SMITH: On the Borders of Solitude: Thomas Pringle and the Wordsworthian Imagination in South Africa
15 Timothy WEBB: The Stiff Collar and the Mysteries of the Human Heart: The Younger Romantics and the Problem of Lyrical Ballads
Notes on Contributors
Index
1 C.C. BARFOOT: An Historic Moment: âA Natural Delineation of Human Passionsâ as a âNew Moralityâ?
2 Ã ke BERGVALL: Tradition and Individual Talent in Lyrical Ballads
3 Myra COTTINGHAM: The Language of Loss and the Loss of Language in Wordsworthâs Lyrical Ballads
4 C.P. SEABROOK WILKINSON: Wordsworthâs Artless Tale: âThe Female Vagrantâ
5 James McGONICAL: Wordsworthâs Narratology of Footsteps: âChildishâ Writing in Lyrical Ballads
6 Jacqueline SCHOEMAKER: Travel, Homecoming and Wavering Minds in Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems
7 Susanne E. WEBSTER: âThe Rime of the Ancyent Marinereâ: Unfair Dismissal?
8 Annemarie ESTOR: âWe Murder to Dissectâ: A Philosophy of Science in Lyrical Ballads
9 Daniel Sanjiv ROBERTS: Literature, Medical Science and Politics, 1795-1800: Lyrical Ballads and Currieâs Works of Robert Burns
10 Paul E.A. van GESTEL: Coleridge, Priestley and Dissent
11 Jacqueline M. LABBE: Romance and Violence in Mary Robinsonâs Lyrical Tales and Other Gothic Poetry
12 Titus P. BICKNELL: Persona Non Grata: Walter Savage Landorâs Expulsion from the Literary Schools
13 Robert DRUCE: âWhite Fields Shall Bloom, Thy Name Shall Liveâ: Robert Bloomfieldâs Short-Lived Fame
14 M. Van WYK SMITH: On the Borders of Solitude: Thomas Pringle and the Wordsworthian Imagination in South Africa
15 Timothy WEBB: The Stiff Collar and the Mysteries of the Human Heart: The Younger Romantics and the Problem of Lyrical Ballads
Notes on Contributors
Index