Leonora
1900
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56
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In literary terms Burger's ghostly tale broke convention and created a context for Lyrical Ballads and The Ancient Mariner. In 1796 it appeared in no fewer than five versions, each noticeably different from the others. The main distinction of this edition is the contribution of William Blake, whose haunting, hallucinatory frontispiece belongs to the period of his greatest creativity. Stanley's Leonora is marked out in other ways, by the inclusion of the German text, and by the happy ending he good triumphs, Leonora awakes, William returns. It is a measure of the ballad's power and its impact upon the poetry-reading public that he felt the need to Christianize it.
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