"A natural delineation of human passions" : : the historic moment of Lyrical ballads / / edited by C.C. Barfoot.

• Superior document: DQR studies in literature ; 34
• TeilnehmendeR: Barfoot, C. C.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: DQR Studies in Literature 34.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 pages)

Most of the articles in A Natural Delineation of Human Passions” 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, “An Historic Moment: ‘A Natural Delineation of Human Passions’ as a ‘New Morality’?”, attempts to establish an historic and an historical context, both personal and political, for the six articles that follow, by Åke 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 – 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / C.C. Barfoot -- AN HISTORIC MOMENT: “A NATURAL DELINEATION OF HUMAN PASSIONS” AS A “NEW MORALITY”? / C.C. Barfoot -- TRADITION AND INDIVIDUAL TALENT IN LYRICAL BALLADS / Åke Bergvall -- THE LANGUAGE OF LOSS AND THE LOSS OF LANGUAGE IN WORDSWORTH’S LYRICAL BALLADS / Myra Cottingham -- WORDSWORTH’S ARTLESS TALE: “THE FEMALE VAGRANT” / C.P. Seabrook Wilkinson -- WORDSWORTH’S NARRATOLOGY OF FOOTSTEPS: “CHILDISH” WRITING IN LYRICAL BALLADS / James McGonigal -- TRAVEL, HOMECOMING AND WAVERING MINDS IN LYRICAL BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS / Jacqueline Schoemaker -- “THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE”: UNFAIR DISMISSAL? / Suzanne E. Webster -- “WE MURDER TO DISSECT”: A PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN LYRICAL BALLADS / Annemarie Estor -- LITERATURE, MEDICAL SCIENCE AND POLITICS, 1795-1800: LYRICAL BALLADS AND CURRIE’S WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS / Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- COLERIDGE, PRIESTLEY AND DISSENT / Paul E.A. Van Gestel -- ROMANCE AND VIOLENCE IN MARY ROBINSON’S LYRICAL TALES AND OTHER GOTHIC POETRY / Jacqueline M. Labbe -- PERSONA NON GRATA: WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR’S EXPULSION FROM THE LITERARY SCHOOLS / Titus P. Bicknell -- “WHILE FIELDS SHALL BLOOM, THY NAME SHALL LIVE”: ROBERT BLOOMFIELD’S SHORT-LIVED FAME / Robert Druce -- ON THE BORDERS OF SOLITUDE: THOMAS PRINGLE AND THE WORDSWORTHIAN IMAGINATION IN SOUTH AFRICA / M. Van Wyk Smith -- THE STIFF COLLAR AND THE MYSTERIES OF THE HUMAN HEART: THE YOUNGER ROMANTICS AND THE PROBLEM OF LYRICAL BALLADS / Timothy Webb -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / C.C. Barfoot -- INDEX / C.C. Barfoot.