ABSTRACT This essay argues that William Wordsworth and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) use the lyrical ballad genre to formalize and conceptualize imaginative revenge, a pleasurable form of retaliation particularly suitable for everyday life that involves punishing one’s foe strictly in the mind without resorting to violence or physical action of any kind. Imaginative revenge takes shape in lyrical ballads through formal elements like lyric and meter, unlike the more conventional formal and thematic features of revenge literature such as plot, spectacular violence, and tragedy. In discussing Wordsworth’s “Andrew Jones” (1800) and Landon’s “Revenge” (1828) as two lyrical ballads that exemplify such revenge, this essay also attends to the shared, communal potential of this otherwise private form of reprisal as well as the ways in which these poets anticipate arguments in more recent moral philosophy and affect theory about the value of negative feeling in the everyday.

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“合适的惩罚”：想象的复仇、抒情歌谣和日常生活

摘要 本文认为，威廉·华兹华斯和莱蒂娅·伊丽莎白·兰登 (LEL) 使用抒情民谣类型将富有想象力的报复形式化和概念化，这是一种令人愉悦的报复形式，特别适合日常生活，涉及在不诉诸暴力或任何形式的身体动作。富有想象力的复仇通过抒情和韵律等形式元素在抒情民谣中形成，这与复仇文学更传统的形式和主题特征不同，如情节、壮观的暴力和悲剧。在讨论华兹华斯的“安德鲁·琼斯”（1800 年）和兰登的“复仇”（1828 年）作为体现这种报复的两首抒情民谣时，本文还关注了共同的、