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Curated by: Adam Walker - Close Reading Poetry (237 videos)
This lecture explores the spiritual and political vision of Lyrical Ballads (1802), a collection by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that forever changed the course of poetry. We discuss Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads and its goal to speak in “the real language of men.” We trace how both poets used the plainest images to reveal moral and emotional truths. And we consider how, after the collapse of the French Revolution’s idealism, these poets turned inward, believing that true freedom could begin not in the streets, but in the stillness of a reader’s mind. This lecture invites you into the political, spiritual, and poetic stakes of Romantic poetry’s most famous collaboration! Join the online community at Versed: https://versedcommunity.mn.co/ Stillness as the main theme: 0:00-2:20 It's Intervention: 2:20-4:25 The Friendship: 4:25-12:03 Nature: 12:03-17:19 Romantics and the Revolution: 17:19-26:12 The Style & Preface: 26:12-41:19