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Author Rookmaaker, H. R. (Hendrik Roelof)

Title Towards a romantic conception of nature : Coleridge's poetry up to 1803 : a study in the history of ideas / H.R. Rookmaaker, Jr
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages)
Series Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature, 0167-8175 ; v. 20
Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; v. 20. 0167-8175
Contents TOWARDS A ROMANTIC CONCEPTION OF NATURE: COLERIDGE'S POETRY UP TO 1803; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TRADITION OF NATURE POETRY; CHAPTER II. THE TRADITIONAL CHARACTER OF COLERIDGE'S EARLYPOETRY; CHAPTER III. THE 1796 POEMS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND; CHAPTER IV. COLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH IN 1797; THEIR INTEREST IN EVIL AND ALIENATION; CHAPTER V. ALIENATION RECONSIDERED: THE ANCIENT MARINER'; CHAPTER VI. TROST ATMIDNIGHT':A COMPANION PIECE TO THE ANCIENT MARINER'
CHAPTER VII. A BRIEF SURVEY OF CONTINENTAL IDEAS ON MAN ANDNATURECHAPTER VIII. A MOVEMENT AWAY FROM EMPIRICISM, TOWARDS THE 'ONE LIFE' IDEA: 1799-1803; CHAPTER IX. THE 'ONE LIFE' AND ALIENATION: 'DEJECTION: AN ODE'; CHAPTER X. 'KUBLA KHAN' AND ITS IDEATIONAL RESEMBLANCE TO'DEJECTION: AN ODE'; CHAPTER XI. REALITY AND DREAM: ROMANTIC IRONY IN 'THE PICTURE'; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; INDEX OF COLERIDGE'S WORKS
Summary This study describes in detail the development of Coleridge's attitude to nature as it is reflected in his poetry. It analyses the different stages of Coleridge's search for a meaningful relation to nature from an uncritical adoption of the eighteenth century conventions in his early poetry to a projectionist view in his poems of 1802. It offers challenging new readings of some of Coleridge's major poems like 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Dejection: an Ode', and tries to rehabilitate some minor ones, like 'The Picture'. Attention is also paid to his relation with Wordsworth. It discusses in detai
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 fast
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (1772-1834) -- Critique et interprétation. ram
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. swd
Subject Nature in literature.
Philosophy of nature.
Romanticism -- England
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Nature in literature
Philosophy of nature
Romanticism
Natur
Weltanschauung
Lyrik
Nature -- Dans la littérature.
Philosophie de la nature.
Romantisme -- Angleterre (GB)
Geschichte 1796-1803.
Geschichte (1789-1803)
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 84024633
ISBN 9789027279897
9027279896
1283424681
9781283424684
9786613424686
6613424684