TY - BOOK AU - Brennan, David John AB - 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? DO - 10.21983/P3.0145.1.00 ID - OAPEN ID: 1004615 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1048167412 KW - poetry KW - criticism KW - Wordsworth KW - plays KW - experimental poetry L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/febc3bf0-02e3-4805-96d8-3900a24d0c43/1004615.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25480 PB - punctum books PP - Brooklyn, NY PY - 2016 SN - 9780692734629 TI - Murder Ballads: Exhuming the Body Buried beneath Wordsworth's Lyrical Balladsnull ER -