Description |
xiv, 210 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 22 cm |
Series |
Preface books |
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Preface books.
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Contents |
Part 1: The poet and critic in his setting. Biographical summaries. Family tree -- Chronological table -- Biographical sketch -- Sketches from life -- Coleridge as romantic poet. The roots of Coleridge's romanticism -- The sublime -- Gilpin and the picturesque -- Percy's Reliques and Thomas Chatterton -- Bowles and Cowper -- Poetry and radicalism: Coleridge's Bristol circle. Coleridge and Southey -- English politics and the French Revolution -- The events of the French Revolution -- Reactions in England 1789-94 -- Pantisocracy -- Coleridge's first periodical: The Watchman -- Poetry and philosophy: Coleridge and Wordsworth at Somerset. Early meetings -- The shared intellectual background -- David Hartley and associationism -- Lyrical Ballads -- Coleridge as romantic critic. Quality of mind -- The preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1800 -- Wordsworth's view of poetry in the preface -- Coleridge on Wordsworth's view -- Idealism and romanticism -- Coleridge and Kant -- The dark years -- The occasion of Biographia Literaria -- Coleridge and Shakespeare -- Shakespeare and Wordsworth -- Epilogue. The final phase -- Part 2: Critical survey. Coleridge's verse -- The Eolian harp -- This lime tree bower my prison -- Frost at midnight -- The ancient mariner -- Kubla Khan -- Dejection: an ode -- Coleridge's prose -- Part 3: Reference section. Coleridge's friends and contemporaries -- A Coleridge gazetteer -- Coleridge's influence -- Further reading -- Appendices. The original version of Dejection: an ode -- Resolution and independence by William Wordsworth -- Coleridge and Percy's Reliques -- Coleridge on Shakespeare's judgment |
Analysis |
Poetry in English Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Critical studies |
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Poetry in English Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Critical studies |
Notes |
Bibliographyp.187-188. _ Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 187-188 |
Performer |
ISBN 0 582 31516 6 Pbk: £1.15 |
Notes |
Also issued online |
Subject |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
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SUBJECT |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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Subject |
Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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LC no. |
73164341 |
ISBN |
0582315158 |
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0582315166 (paperback) |
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