{"product_id":"an-analysis-of-william-wordsworths-preface-to-the-lyrical-ballads-paperback","title":"An Analysis of William Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlex Latter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRachel Teubner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentral to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him, Wordsworth's \u003ci\u003ePreface to the Lyrical Ballads \u003c\/i\u003ehas been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century. Readers find themselves drawn back to the essay repeatedly as they seek to untangle the ideas and contradictions within it. \u003cem\u003eThe Preface \u003c\/em\u003eis a statement of Wordsworth's poetic vision and offers an explanation of the poetic process behind the poems, which fused the rusticity of the ballad form with the psychological introspection of modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut to the generation of Romantic writers that emerged in its wake, the Preface announced a new understanding of the creative process and of the high purposes of poetry: to reveal the human condition, and to awaken in its readers the profoundest emotions and the most enduring truths of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Alex Latter completed his PhD at the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck, University of London, where his thesis looked at postwar British poetry. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLate Modernism and \u003c\/i\u003eThe English Intelligencer: \u003ci\u003eOn the Poetics of Community \u003c\/i\u003e(2015). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Teubner is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia. She teaches courses in Christian thought and in religion and literature, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Macat Analysis of T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2014). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51796886946080,"sku":"9781912453146","price":14.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f678a73ca23613cf29d33c2e28315c0f.webp?v=1780769242","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/an-analysis-of-william-wordsworths-preface-to-the-lyrical-ballads-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}