EN 2633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, Mary Wollstonecraft
16 Mar 2018
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The romantic period: usually said to have commenced with the 1798 publication of samuel taylor. Romantic period began before 1798, arguing that certain works published before that date (such as those of blake and wollstonecraft) exemplify the radical changes in political thought and literary expression commonly associated with english romanticism. Most scholars agree that the romantic period concluded in 1837 with the coronation of queen victoria. Artistic and intellectual freedom combined to make the spirit of the age one of exploration and discovery. Ballad or popular ballad (also known as the folk or traditional ballad): a song, transmitted orally, which tells a story. Typically, the popular ballad is dramatic and impersonal: the narrator begins with the climatic episode, tells the story tersely by means of dialogue, and tells it without expressing his or her personal attitudes or feelings. The story is usually derived from a tragic incident in local history or legend.
