The Contemporaneity of the Lyrical Ballads
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23130247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert D Mayo (Northwestern University, corresponding author), Robert Mayo |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 486-522 |
| Publication date | 1954-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8129 • E-ISSN: 1938-1530 |
| Publisher | Modern Language Association (MLA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1632/460070 |
| OpenAlex | W2326404083 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
A fruitful but unfrequented approach to the Lyrical Ballads is through the poetry of the magazines. The volume unquestionably belongs to 1798, and seen in relation to the popular verse of that day, its contemporaneous features are very striking. We have been asked to consider too exclusively the revolutionary aspects of the Lyrical Ballads. Revolutionary they unquestionably were, but not in every respect. Except that they were much better than other poems published in 1798, the Ballads were not such a “complete change” as some writers would have us believe. Even their eccentricity has been exaggerated. Actually, there is a conventional side to the Lyrical Ballads, although it is usually overlooked. It is by way of the general taste for poetry in the 1790's that this essay will approach the poems, and it will attempt to show that they not only conformed in numerous ways to the modes of 1798, and reflected popular tastes and attitudes, but enjoyed a certain popularity in the magazines themselves.
Art · Ballad · Literature · Poetry · Popularity · Relation (database) · Taste · Computer Science · French Literature and Poetry · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2015 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |