ENG308Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lyrical Ballads, Anthropomorphism
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Note the number of poems that are identified as a pastoral. For wordsworth the pastoral is from a moral perspective as well as aesthetic. Wordsworth changes for the 1800 edition shift the focus on genre and philosophical perspective to more of a pastoral center: shifts away from supernatural and romantic elements of the ballad to the lyricism of the pastoral narrative. The low and rustic as the most beautiful and permanent form of nature. He wants to interest mankind permanently to his moral relations. Refer to final four lines of tintern abbey: transition into volume two this green landscape . Calls the landscape of the wye valley pastoral. Linking the pastoral to something intimate and personal, to his sense of self that he is passing on to his sister: closing tintern abbey with this line shows how much focus. Wordsworth gives to the pastoral in the second edition.
