Stephen Maxfield Parrish
Contributor
Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of English, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Author of The Art of the Lyrical Ballads and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
William Wordsworth was an English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement. The principles he outlines in the preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800) were revolutionary. By seeking to compose poetry that…
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