Author: Carl Ray WOODRINGPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Politics in the Poetry of Coleridge
Author: Carl Ray WOODRINGPolitics in the Poetry of Coleridge
Author: Carl WoodringPublisher: Madison U. of Wisconsin P
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Politics in the Poetry of Coleridge
Author: Carl R.. WoodringOrganising Poetry
Author: David FairerPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191569976
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this revisionary study of the poetry of Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends during the 'revolutionary decade' David Fairer questions the accepted literary history of the period and the critical vocabulary we use to discuss it. The book examines why, at a time of radical upheaval when continuities of all kinds (personal, political, social, and cultural) were being challenged, this group of poets explored themes of inheritance, retrospect, revisiting, and recovery. Organising Poetry charts their struggles to find meaning not through vision and symbol but from connection and dialogue. By placing these poets in the context of an eighteenth-century 'organic' tradition, Fairer moves the emphasis away from the language of idealist 'Romantic' theory towards an empirical stress on how identities are developed and sustained through time. Locke's concept of personal identity as a continued organisation 'partaking of one common life' offered not only a model for a reformed British constitution but a way of thinking about the self, art and friendship, which these poets found valuable. The key term, therefore, is not 'unity' but 'integrity'. In this context of a need to sustain and organise diversity and give it meaning, the book offers original readings of some well known poems of the 1790s, including Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' and 'The Ruined Cottage', and Coleridge's conversation poems 'The Eolian Harp', 'This Lime-Tree Bower', and 'Frost at Midnight'. Organising Poetry represents an important contribution to current critical debates about the nature of poetic creativity during this period and the need to recognise its more communal and collaborative aspects.
The Making of Poetry
Author: Adam NicolsonPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing—Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth’s revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In The Making of Poetry, Adam Nicolson embeds himself in the reality of this unique moment, exploring the idea that these poems came from this particular place and time, and that only by experiencing the physical circumstances of the year, in all weathers and all seasons, at night and at dawn, in sunlit reverie and moonlit walks, can the genesis of the poetry start to be understood. The poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge made was not from settled conclusions but from the adventure on which they embarked, thinking of poetry as a challenge to all received ideas, stripping away the dead matter, looking to shed consciousness and so change the world. What emerges is a portrait of these great figures seen not as literary monuments but as young men, troubled, ambitious, dreaming of a vision of wholeness, knowing they had greatness in them but still in urgent search of the paths toward it. The artist Tom Hammick accompanied Nicolson for much of the year, making woodcuts from the fallen timber in the park at Alfoxden where the Wordsworths lived. Interspersed throughout the book, his images bridge the centuries, depicting lives at the source of our modern sensibility: a psychic landscape of doubt and possibility, full of beauty and thick with desire for a kind of connectedness that seems permanently at hand and yet always out of reach.
Coleridge's Submerged Politics
Author: Patrick J. KeanePublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826209429
Category : Politics and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Part II argues that imagery and plot developments in The Ancient Mariner reflect political events between November 1797 and March 1798, the months when Coleridge was writing and revising his poem and contributing anti-Pittite verses and essays to the widely read opposition newspaper the Morning Post.
Poetry Wars
Author: Colin WellsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The pen was as mighty as the musket during the American Revolution, as poets waged literary war against politicians, journalists, and each other. Drawing on hundreds of poems, Poetry Wars reconstructs the important public role of poetry in the early republic and examines the reciprocal relationship between political conflict and verse.
The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge's Critical Thought
Author: Nigel LeaskPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
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Category : Albatrosses
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Coleridge's Writings
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349096679
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This collection of Coleridge's political and social writings includes the second "Lay Sermon" of 1817 and "In the Constitution of Church and State", printed with only slight abridgements. It also has groups of briefer extracts tracing major steps in the development of Coleridge's mature thought.