Coleridge's Submerged Politics

Coleridge's Submerged Politics

Author: Patrick J. Keane

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780826209429

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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.


Coleridge's Political Poetics

Coleridge's Political Poetics

Author: Jacob Lloyd

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-19

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 3031418778

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This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. It argues that, during the 1790s, Coleridge was able to articulate radical ideas under the cover of widely accepted principles through his references to this poetry. He positioned his poetry within a mainstream discourse, even as he favoured radical social change. Jacob Lloyd argues that the poets Mark Akenside, William Lisle Bowles, and William Cowper each provided Coleridge with a kind of Whig poetics to which he responded. When these references are understood, much of Coleridge’s work which seems purely personal or imaginative gains a political dimension. In addition, Lloyd reassess Coleridge’s relationship with Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, to provide an original, political reading of ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’. This book revises our understanding of the political and poetic development of a major poet and, in doing so, provides a new model for the origins of British Romanticism more broadly


Coleridge and Shelley

Coleridge and Shelley

Author: Sally West

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1317164598

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Sally West's timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge's influence on Shelley's poetic development. Beginning with a discussion of Shelley's views on Coleridge as a man and as a poet, West argues that there is a direct correlation between Shelley's desire for political and social transformation and the way in which he appropriates the language, imagery, and forms of Coleridge, often transforming their original meaning through subtle readjustments of context and emphasis. While she situates her work in relation to recent concepts of literary influence, West is focused less on the psychology of the poets than on the poetry itself. She explores how elements such as the development of imagery and the choice of poetic form, often learnt from earlier poets, are intimately related to poetic purpose. Thus on one level, her book explores how the second-generation Romantic poets reacted to the beliefs and ideals of the first, while on another it addresses the larger question of how poets become poets, by returning the work of one writer to the literary context from which it developed. Her book is essential reading for specialists in the Romantic period and for scholars interested in theories of poetic influence.


British Romantic Drama

British Romantic Drama

Author: Terence Allan Hoagwood

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780838637432

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The present volume attempts a systematic explanation of various dimensions of Romantic drama by foregrounding both the theoretical and practical questions bearing on Romantic drama in its historical situation. In this effort, the volume intentionally gravitates toward discussion of lesser-known works of the period, rather than such major dramas as Manfred or Prometheus Unbound. This is because the poetic dramas by Byron and Shelley have already been the subject of many useful historicist investigations, and also because lesser-known works - for instance, the dramas of Scott, Wordsworth's Borderers, and the many revolutionary and counter-revolutionary dramas of the period - provide avenues into historical and ideological issues that cannot be adequately addressed by exclusive attention to dramas long recognized as canonical.


Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

Author: Marcus Wood

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2002-11-21

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0191541931

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Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of English from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Marcus Wood writes from the conviction that slavery was, and still is, a dilemma for everyone in England, and seeks to explain why English society has constructed Atlantic slavery in the way it has. He takes on the works of canonic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century white authors which claimed, when written, to 'account' for slavery, and asks with some scepticism what kind of 'truth' they hold. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, chapters focus on the writings of the major Romantic poets, English Radicals William Cobbett and John Thelwall, the Surinam writings of John Stedman, the full range of slavery texts generated by Harriet Martineau, John Newton, and the social prophets Carlyle and Ruskin. Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography also contains a radical new critique of the operations of slavery within the work of Austen and Charlotte Brontë.


The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

Author: Tim Fulford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-11-30

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1108832229

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This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in relation to slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder and ecological crisis. Through detailed engagement with Coleridge's pioneering poetry, the reader is invited to explore fundamental questions on themes ranging from nature and trauma to gender and sexuality. Essays by leading Coleridge scholars analyse and render accessible his extraordinarily innovative thinking about dreams, psychoanalysis, genius and symbolism. Coleridge is often a direct and gripping writer, yet he is also elusive and diverse. This Companion's great achievement is to offer a one-volume entry point into his incomparably rich and varied world.


Wordsworth and Coleridge

Wordsworth and Coleridge

Author: Nicholas Roe

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0198818114

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An updated reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Author: Stephen Bygrave

Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 0746308299

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A concise, accessible and innovative account of a major poet and thinker.


The Romantic Poets

The Romantic Poets

Author: Uttara Natarajan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0470766352

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This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints


Coleridge's Philosophy of Faith

Coleridge's Philosophy of Faith

Author: Joel Harter

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9783161508349

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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 2008 under title: The word made flesh and the mazy page: symbol and allegory in Coleridge's philosophy of faith.