Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Poetic Revolution

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Jonathan Bate explains why Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads is one of the greatest and most influential volumes of poetry ever written.
A lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate CBE FBA, Professor of Rhetoric 16 October 2018
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'The sense of a new style and a new spirit in poetry came over me', wrote William Hazlitt, recalling the day in 1798 when he heard William Wordsworth reading aloud from Lyrical Ballads, 'It partakes of, and is carried along with, the revolutionary movement of our age'.
Jonathan Bate will explain what Hazlitt meant and why Lyrical Ballads, the product of Wordsworth's intimate friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of the greatest and most influential volumes of poetry ever written.
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@robertfulton4415 6 ай бұрын

Wonderful lecture. Wish we had more.

@MichaelCantrall 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent lecture. Great upload. Thank you.

@ericadler9680 3 жыл бұрын

I just finished reading Bate's "Radical Wordsworth" which was an entertaining read, but strongly coloured by the author's own politics and ethics. Wordsworth's change from a "radical" of his time to a "conservative" was not discussed at all, only mentioned. I suspect that Wordsworth's conservatism had a lot to do with his sense of rootedness in the landscape and the importance of such a rootedness to a person's identity, but obviously, Bate didn't want to discuss such matters.

@mounajamri3170 4 жыл бұрын

Dim were my swimming eyes....how beautiful the picture is delicate

@thisiszahra72 4 жыл бұрын

i kind of loved it , wish there were more

@sreekrishnadasmathoor2919 5 жыл бұрын

It was simply great. Thanks

@ahmedabdallah2040 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder how did the romantics reconcile their particularized attention to the natural world with their commitment to exploring memory, emotion, and the unconscious?

@AnchovyRun 3 жыл бұрын

According to romantic philosophy, the Absolute is the union of consciousness and nature. For most of the romantic poets, the Absolute is in some fashion the object of their wonder. See Schelling's Naturphilosophie and Kant's writing on the Sublime.

@hevi6048 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.You have crosse some boundaries, Sir.

@hevi6048 5 жыл бұрын

Crossed.. The demands of social order mean that I should type well.

@jovankamarkoska8687 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpful and quite interesting lecture :D

@hevi6048 5 жыл бұрын

I have been advised that music is the chariot of emotion. I still write...I blush, unseen.

@johnkeithrobinson7399 3 жыл бұрын

good job keep up the good work

@ntag121193 3 жыл бұрын

According to Wordsworth, what is good poetry: its diction and subject matter; its origins and effect on readers?

@hevi6048 5 жыл бұрын

Why are there no more comments?

@ericadler9680 3 жыл бұрын

I'm reading Bate's book Radical Wordsworth right now; it's freshly non-academic and you can tell that Bate loves his subject matter and that he is himself a born storyteller. In this dark age, when Britain is quickly losing its culture and traditions and no more than one third of all school children in Birmingham are English children, Wordsworth's rootedness is more important as a model for us than ever.