02392 am 22004213u 450 991022924230332120230505191208.0978069273462910.21983/P3.0145.1.00(CKB)4100000000981189(OAPEN)1004615(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34907(EXLCZ)99410000000098118920200123h20162016 fy 0enguuuuu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMurder ballads exhuming the body buried beneath Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads /David John BrennanBrooklyn, NYpunctum books2016[Santa Barbara, California] ;Earth :punctum books,2016.©20161 online resource (150 pages) PDF, digital file(s)Print version: 0692734627 In 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were engaged in a top secret experiment. This was not, as many assume, the creation of a book of poetry. A book emerged, to be sure—the landmark Lyrical Ballads. But in Murder Ballads, David John Brennan posits that the two poets were in fact pursuing far different ends: to birth from their poems a singular, idealized Poet. Despite their success, such Frankensteinian pursuits proved rife with consequence for the men. Doubts and questions plagued them: What does it mean to be a poet if your work is not your own? Who is best fit to lay claim to a parcel of poetic property that was collaboratively crafted and bequeathed to a fictitious Poet? How does one kill a Poet born of one’s own hand? Blending critical examination with jocular playlets-in-verse featuring the authors of the two books in baffled conversation, Murder Ballads reopens a 200-year-old cold case that never received a proper investigation: Who was the first true Author of Lyrical Ballads, and how exactly did he die?English poetryHistory and criticismpoetrycriticismWordsworthplaysexperimental poetryEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.Brennan David John920949UkMaJRU9910229242303321Murder ballads2065630UNINA