[PDF] ILCEA4 - Wordsworth et Coleridge : Lyrical Ballads 1798 (Lectures

How did Wordsworth and Coleridge influence each other?

• During this time, Wordsworth and Coleridge greatly influenced, criticized and inspired eachother’s poetry. In 1798, the two poets joined together to publish the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that is considered by many to be the definitive starting point of the Romantic Era.

When did Wordsworth and Coleridge publish the Lyrical Ballads?

• In 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge published Anonymously the "Lyrical Ballads", that marked the beginning of the Romanticism in England. In 1800, the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, included Wordsworth's famous prose "Preface", where he establishes the principles of romantic poetry. He died in 1850.

What is Wordsworth's purpose in the Lyrical Ballads?

• Wordsworth, in the preface to The Lyrical Ballads, which with the assistance of Coleridge he published in 1798, says that he intends to “choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout in a selection of the language really used by men.”

What are the most affecting moments in Coleridge's poetry?

• If the most affecting moments in Coleridge’s poetry are to do with glimpsing visionary paradises and psychological hells (see Christabel in particular) his experience of writing was frequently purgatorial, a career of procrastination, unworkable projects and a reliance on the verbatim incorporation of the work of others that amounts to plagiarism.