Part 1, Life, Times, Themes sets Lyrical Ballads in the context of
Wordsworth life and his age, for instance Wordsworth in France.
Part 2, Literary Strategies, considers Wordsworth's provocative
theories of how poetry should work, and includes a treatment of the
famous 'Preface' to Lyrical Ballads, one of the great poetic
manifestos. Part 3 offers illuminating commentary and questions on
the following poems: 'We are seven', 'Anecdote for fathers', 'Lines
left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree', 'To my sister', 'Lines written in
Early Spring', 'Expostulation and Reply', 'The Tables Turned';,
'The Female Vagrant', 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill', 'The Last of
the Flock', 'The Mad Mother', 'The Complaint of a forsaken Indian
Woman', 'The Convict', 'Old Man travelling', 'Simon Lee', 'The
Idiot Boy', 'TheThorn', 'Tintern Abbey', 'Hart-leap Well', 'There
was a boy', 'Nutting', 'The Lucy Poems', 'The Brothers' and
'Michael'. Part 4: Critical Reception discusses contemporary,
Victorian and recent critical approaches to Wordsworth and includes
an annotated guide to further reading.
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