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Between the years 1795 and 1798 William Wordsworth changed profoundly. He moved from a position of distant sympathy towards the rural poor to the position of unselfconscious identification with the...m which his poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1798) express.
Between the years 1795 and 1798 William Wordsworth changed profoundly. He moved from a position of distant sympathy towards the rural poor to the position of unselfconscious identification with the...m which his poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1798) express.
| Module code and title: | A202, The age of revolutions |
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| Item code: | A202; 14 |
| Recording date: | 1971-04-21 |
| First transmission date: | 24-04-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:17:35 |
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| Producer: | Nuala O'Faolain |
| Contributors: | Jill Balcon; Hugh Dickson; Cicely Palser Havely; John Westbrook |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Lyrical Ballads; Poetry |
| Footage description: | Between the years 1795 and 1798 William Wordsworth changed profoundly. He moved from a position of distant sympathy towards the rural poor to the position of unselfconscious identification with them which his poems in the Lyrical Ballads (1798) express. Cicely Havely argues that three things brought about this change: 1) William's reunion with his sister Dorothy; 2) the Wordsworths'move to the West Country; 3) and the stimulating companionship of Coleridge, himself in the prime of his poetic life. Much documentation exists for this crucial period — quotations come from the journals and letters of all three. But the most telling points are made by the poems quoted. These show the interdependance during this period of the two poets, both in their descriptive and philosophic statements, and their shared debt to the sensitively observant Dorothy. They also show Wordsworth's growing mastery of his own tone of voice. The programme, then, makes a critical point. But it also aims to capture the happiness and enthusiasm of the trio during the one period of their lives when they were, though poor and unknown, genuinely promoting a revolution in English poetry and in English social thinking. |
| Master spool number: | TLN16FM169J |
| Production number: | TLN16FM169J |
| Available to public: | no |
