Andrew Motion and Alice Oswald among contributors to new version of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s pioneering collection
The poems are full of waterfalls, frosty moors, sunlit summer days, crumbling cottages – and a focus on the real lives of “ordinary” people.
Two centuries after William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge pioneered the Romantic poetry movement, 23 of their best-known modern successors, including the former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, have contributed freshly minted pieces for a new version of the pair’s landmark collection, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems.
The 23 converged on Bristol, a spiritual homeland of the movement, where Wordsworth and Coleridge both worked and where their Lyrical Ballads was first published, at the weekend to unveil their poems and show that Romanticism is alive and kicking.
A series of Coleridge lectures is also being held, inspired by the fiery debates the poet organised in Bristol while a new guide to the sights of Bristol associated with the Romantic movement – such as the spot where Wordsworth composed the final passage of Tintern Abbey – has been produced.
More
Two centuries after William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge pioneered the Romantic poetry movement, 23 of their best-known modern successors, including the former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, have contributed freshly minted pieces for a new version of the pair’s landmark collection, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems.
The 23 converged on Bristol, a spiritual homeland of the movement, where Wordsworth and Coleridge both worked and where their Lyrical Ballads was first published, at the weekend to unveil their poems and show that Romanticism is alive and kicking.
A series of Coleridge lectures is also being held, inspired by the fiery debates the poet organised in Bristol while a new guide to the sights of Bristol associated with the Romantic movement – such as the spot where Wordsworth composed the final passage of Tintern Abbey – has been produced.
More
No comments:
Post a Comment