Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads’
- The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads’
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Part and Whole
- Part II Subjects and Situations from Common Life
- Part III Feeling and Thought
- Part IV Language and the Human Mind
- Part V A Global Lyrical Ballads
- Chapter 12 Ecocritical Approaches to Lyrical Ballads
- Chapter 13 Rhyming Revolutionaries: Lyrical Ballads in America
- Chapter 14 The Indigenous Lyrical Ballads
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 13 - Rhyming Revolutionaries: Lyrical Ballads in America
from Part V - A Global Lyrical Ballads
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2020
- The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads’
- The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads’
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Part and Whole
- Part II Subjects and Situations from Common Life
- Part III Feeling and Thought
- Part IV Language and the Human Mind
- Part V A Global Lyrical Ballads
- Chapter 12 Ecocritical Approaches to Lyrical Ballads
- Chapter 13 Rhyming Revolutionaries: Lyrical Ballads in America
- Chapter 14 The Indigenous Lyrical Ballads
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on James Humphreys, the publisher of the 1802 Philadelphia edition of Lyrical Ballads, and examines many aspects of the text itself, such as the book’s material form, price, date and place of issue. It considers how Humphreys’ involvement in the American Revolution affected the political charge of the poems and how he used the Ballads and other works published by his press to critique and alter the course of the new nation. Humphreys was as concerned with people being disenfranchised during Jefferson’s tenure as president as Wordsworth and Coleridge were with people being disenfranchised during George III’s reign as king.
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- The Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads' , pp. 230 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020