{"product_id":"murder-ballads-exhuming-the-body-buried-beneath-wordsworths-lyrical-ballads-9780692734629","title":"Murder Ballads: Exhuming the Body Buried Beneath Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David John Brennan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Punctum Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Punctum Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punctum Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47595797676183,"sku":"9780692734629","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780692734629.webp?v=1774991224","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/murder-ballads-exhuming-the-body-buried-beneath-wordsworths-lyrical-ballads-9780692734629","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}