A Day with Lyrical Ballads

Published in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads is one of the landmark achievements of European Romanticism, and one of the most important collections of English poetry. This course will close-read individual poems like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Thorn, as well as exploring the turbulent post-French Revolutionary history from which the book emerged, probing Wordsworth and Coleridge’s arguments about poetry, and considering the collection’s influence on subsequent literary history.

• Tutor: Stephen Grace PhD
• Term: Spring
• Day: Saturday
• Start Date: 19 and 26 March 2022
• Time: 10am-1.15pm
• No. of weeks: 2 (consecutive weeks)
• Full fee: £47

This course will be delivered via Zoom. Students joining the course will need access to a computer, laptop or tablet with a microphone (essential) and a webcam (desirable) as well as a reliable broadband connection.

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