num_pages: 259
description: Identifies 1798 as a significant date in literary history because of the publication of a volume of poems titled Lyrical Ballads. This collections of 11 essays examines the literary culture of 1798, and defines that single historical moment as the beginning of romanticism in England. Topics include Mary Wollstonecraft at the turn of the century; Malthus on the road to excess; the shift of intellectual influence from France to Germany; medical science, politics and poetry in Thewall, Coleridge and Wordsworth; and Gebir and Jacobin poetry. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads
titlecomplete: 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads (Romanticism in Perspective)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan