Wordsworth and Coleridge : Lyrical Ballads (Paperback)

General Editor's Preface.- Some Important Events During the Lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge.- Introduction.- PART I: ANALYSING LYRICAL BALLADS Childhood and Growth of the Mind.- Imagination.- Old Age: A 'vital anxiousness'.- Society Issues: 'the mean and vulgar works of man'.- Nature and the Supernatural: 'the strangeness of it'.- PART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS The Politics of Wordsworth and Coleridge.- Reading and Writing in Late Eighteenth-Century England.- The Poet as Critic and Theorist.- Dorothy Wordsworth and the Lake Poets.- Critical Responses to Lyrical Ballads.- Further Reading.- Index.