Coleridge and Shelley: Textual EngagementSally 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. |
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... Anxiety of Influence2 Poetry does not fall from the air or spring fully formed from the imagination of the poet. It is, as Shelley was aware, crafted from intersecting influences, both internal and external. Poets create their age in ...
... Anxiety of Influence2 Poetry does not fall from the air or spring fully formed from the imagination of the poet. It is, as Shelley was aware, crafted from intersecting influences, both internal and external. Poets create their age in ...
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... Anxiety of Influence in 1973, the term 'influence' with regard to poetry has become extremely loaded, with Bloom's work exerting its own aura of authority over subsequent criticism. In Bloom's account, the aspiring poet's work is ...
... Anxiety of Influence in 1973, the term 'influence' with regard to poetry has become extremely loaded, with Bloom's work exerting its own aura of authority over subsequent criticism. In Bloom's account, the aspiring poet's work is ...
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... Anxiety of Influence to poetry as a 'family romance', where the ephebe must struggle with and ultimately mortally wound his poetic 'father' in order to establish and maintain his own poetic selfhood. The phrase 'a kind of labor that has ...
... Anxiety of Influence to poetry as a 'family romance', where the ephebe must struggle with and ultimately mortally wound his poetic 'father' in order to establish and maintain his own poetic selfhood. The phrase 'a kind of labor that has ...
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... influence is not resolved, but conclusively brushed aside by one of the most infuriating, yet perhaps also illuminating paragraphs of The Anxiety of Influence: All criticisms that call themselves primary vacillate between tautology – in ...
... influence is not resolved, but conclusively brushed aside by one of the most infuriating, yet perhaps also illuminating paragraphs of The Anxiety of Influence: All criticisms that call themselves primary vacillate between tautology – in ...
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... influence theory in recent years have explicitly or implicitly adjusted Bloom's model in order to return the focus ... Anxiety of Influence. However, as suggested earlier in this introduction, Bloom's work following The Anxiety of ...
... influence theory in recent years have explicitly or implicitly adjusted Bloom's model in order to return the focus ... Anxiety of Influence. However, as suggested earlier in this introduction, Bloom's work following The Anxiety of ...
Contents
The presence of Coleridge | |
The Voices of Mont Blanc | |
The vitally metaphorical in This Lime | |
The Legacy of Coleridges Mariner | |
Afterword | |
Index | |
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