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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... Allusion, Lucy Newlyn modifies Bloom's theory in considering the effects of reciprocal influence in this unquestionably dialectical poetic relationship. Her most recent work, Reading, Writing, and Romanticism, explores the relationship ...
... Allusion, Lucy Newlyn modifies Bloom's theory in considering the effects of reciprocal influence in this unquestionably dialectical poetic relationship. Her most recent work, Reading, Writing, and Romanticism, explores the relationship ...
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... allusion in poetry. Hollander relates characteristics of the mythical figure of Echo to our use of the word when describing the allusive relations between one poem and another, commenting, 'It is ... inevitable that the delay between ...
... allusion in poetry. Hollander relates characteristics of the mythical figure of Echo to our use of the word when describing the allusive relations between one poem and another, commenting, 'It is ... inevitable that the delay between ...
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... allusion may fade in prominence; and yet a scholarly recovery of the context would restore the allusion, by revealing an intent, as well as by showing means.23 The final clause of Hollander's comment here highlights once again the ...
... allusion may fade in prominence; and yet a scholarly recovery of the context would restore the allusion, by revealing an intent, as well as by showing means.23 The final clause of Hollander's comment here highlights once again the ...
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... allusion in poetry in terms which speak not of repression and defence, but of both benevolence and originality ... allusion in poetry is a conscious tactic in which the new poet engages to achieve a specific result. No 'passive copyist ...
... allusion in poetry in terms which speak not of repression and defence, but of both benevolence and originality ... allusion in poetry is a conscious tactic in which the new poet engages to achieve a specific result. No 'passive copyist ...
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... allusion: Although to speak of an allusion is always to predicate a source (and you cannot call into play something of which you have never heard), a source may not be an allusion, for it may not be called into play; it may be ...
... allusion: Although to speak of an allusion is always to predicate a source (and you cannot call into play something of which you have never heard), a source may not be an allusion, for it may not be called into play; it may be ...
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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