Twenty years after the publication of the Lyrical Ballads: Its Role in Shaping Modern Literary Criticism the re-examination of the same took place

Ravinder Saini; Imtiyaz Ahmed

Twenty years after the publication of the Lyrical Ballads: Its Role in Shaping Modern Literary Criticism the re-examination of the same took place

Author(s)	Ravinder Saini, Dr. Imtiyaz Ahmed
Country	India
Abstract	English literary history of the time, with the publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798) was shifting the axis of the neoclassical ideal towards the Romantic one. This paper critically re-reads the text in the context of the contribution it has made to the development of the modern literary criticism in particular its interest in the subjectivity, the imagination and democratization of poetic language. Using the critical philosophies of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a basis and its further impact on T. S. Eliot, the paper contextualizes Lyrical Ballads in the greater narrative of literary theory- Romanticism to Modernism. A qualitative, interpretive approach to the analysis of primary texts and critical essays is the basis of the paper, which relates the thematic novelties, stylistic ruptures and epistemological disruptions. The results indicate that Lyrical Ballads was not only a revolution in the practice of poetry, but also established the intellectual basis of the contemporary critical discourse, such as New Criticism, reader-response theory, structuralist approaches. The paper concludes that it is urgent to reconsider the work of Lyrical Ballads in order to understand how the field of literary criticism as an interdisciplinary and dynamic one has developed.
Keywords	Lyrical Ballads, Romanticism, developed, Modern Literary Criticism, Wordsworth, Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, Poetic Theory, Subjectivity, Imagination.
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2025
Published On	2025-01-03

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Twenty years after the publication of the Lyrical Ballads: Its Role in Shaping Modern Literary Criticism the re-examination of the same took place

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