Book
Murder Ballads: Exhuming the Body Buried beneath Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
| Title: | Murder Ballads: Exhuming the Body Buried beneath Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads |
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| Authors: | Brennan, David John |
| Superior Title: | MODID-39cf4671f8e:Punctum Books |
| Publisher Information: | Punctum Books |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Subject Terms: | Literary Criticism / Poetry, bisacsh:LIT014000 |
| Description: | In 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were engaged in a top secret experiment. This was not, as many assume, the creation of a book of poetry. A book emerged, to be sure—the landmark Lyrical Ballads. But in Murder Ballads, David John Brennan posits that the two poets were in fact pursuing far different ends: to birth from their poems a singular, idealized Poet. Despite their success, such Frankensteinian pursuits proved rife with consequence for the men. Doubts and questions plagued them: What does it mean to be a poet if your work is not your own? Who is best fit to lay claim to a parcel of poetic property that was collaboratively crafted and bequeathed to a fictitious Poet? How does one kill a Poet born of one’s own hand? Blending critical examination with jocular playlets-in-verse featuring the authors of the two books in baffled conversation, Murder Ballads reopens a 200-year-old cold case that never received a proper investigation: Who was the first true Author of Lyrical Ballads, and how exactly did he die? |
| Document Type: | book |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 978-0-692-73462-9 0-692-73462-7 |
| Relation: | https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/3739874b-aade-4d98-8f7d-160cd87bc44a; https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/3739874b-aade-4d98-8f7d-160cd87bc44a/assets/external_content.pdf |
| DOI: | 10.21983/P3.0145.1.00 |
| Availability: | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0145.1.00 https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/3739874b-aade-4d98-8f7d-160cd87bc44a https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/3739874b-aade-4d98-8f7d-160cd87bc44a/assets/external_content.pdf |
| Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.7CB3CB53 |
| Database: | BASE |
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