Coleridge's Later Poetry
Morton D. Paley(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 6. June 1996
Book
Hardback
147 pages
978-0-19-818372-3 (ISBN)
Description
The poems that Coleridge wrote after his 'golden' period are seldom studied or anthologized. Yet among the poems written after his most famous works are many of quality and interest, addressing such universal themes as the nature of the self and the experience of unfulfilled love. Paley examines the later verse in the context of Coleridge's Oeuvre, discusses what characterizes it and looks at why the poet felt he had to develop distinctively different modes of writing for these works. 'To William Wordsworth' is presented as a transitional poem, exhibiting the vatic quality of earlier poems even while declaring that this quality must be abandoned. Morton D. Paley then explores the poetry of the abyss (which he terms 'The Limbo Constellation'), and this is followed by poems on the theme of the self and of love. Culminating in an examination of the role of epitaphs in the later works, the author concludes with a study of the epitaph which Coleridge wrote for himself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones, frontispiece
frontispiece, halftones, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
305 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-818372-3 (9780198183723)
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Content
Coleridge - the early family letters; Coleridge and textual instability; Coleridge's philosophy; De Quincey's disciplines; the circle of our vision; legitimate histories; dangerous enthusiasm; walking, literature, and English culture; Romantic poetry by women; the theatres of war; radical satire and print culture; revolution and the form of the British novel; women, writing, and revolution; reading Gothic fiction; romanticism, writing, and sexual difference; Romanticism and the heritage of Rousseau; William Wordsworth - intensity and achievement.