In the traditional account of literary Romanticism in Britain, Lyrical Ballads is considered the seminal, inspirational work. The first edition of October 1798, published anonymously in Bristol by the young Wordsworth and Coleridge, has been said to be 'the only literary publication (as opposed to political event or turn of a century) that has been used to mark the beginning of a period in either English or American literature' (Stillinger 2000: 70). The 'Advertisement' which headed the book stressed the experimental nature of the poems, which were claimed to have been

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(1998). “Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” “the thorn,” and the failure of philanthropy. European Romantic Review: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 103-123.

“Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” “the thorn,” and the failure of philanthropy

Poets, according to Wordsworth in The Prelude, are ‘even as prophets, each with each/Connected in a mighty scheme of truth’, within which scheme each has ‘for his peculiar dower, a sense/By which he is enabled to perceive/Something unseen before’. This sense ofan unbroken bardic inheritance introduces the ostensibly modest plea: 
forgive me friend, If I, the meanest of this band, had hope That unto me had also been vouchsafed Aninflux—(1805, 12.301–5)1
Readers of Thomas Gray will recognize my emphasis. Wordsworth aptly echoes the humility ofthe British bard, Aneirin, as he sings (in Gray’s powerful translation) of the momentous defeat of300 Britons at Catterick: 
But none from Cattraeth’s vale return, Save Aeron brave, and Conan strong, (Bursting through the bloody throng) And I, the meanest ofthem all, That live to weep and sing their fall—2
One aim of this book is to bring to some sort of termination my lengthy fascination with Wordsworth’s prolonged fascination with the eighteenthcentury re-invention ofthe Welsh Bards and the Ancient British Druids.

Richard Gravil

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