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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... literary relationship would have remained underdeveloped. Finally, many thanks are due to my family for all manner of support and encouragement and especially to Tony, for his continual presence throughout, for enduring my frequent ...
... literary relationship would have remained underdeveloped. Finally, many thanks are due to my family for all manner of support and encouragement and especially to Tony, for his continual presence throughout, for enduring my frequent ...
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... Literary History ELN English Language Notes K–SMB Keats–Shelley Memorial Bulletin K–SJ Keats–Shelley Journal K–SR Keats–Shelley Review MLR Modern Language Review MLQ Modern Language Quarterly PMLA Papers of the Modern Language ...
... Literary History ELN English Language Notes K–SMB Keats–Shelley Memorial Bulletin K–SJ Keats–Shelley Journal K–SR Keats–Shelley Review MLR Modern Language Review MLQ Modern Language Quarterly PMLA Papers of the Modern Language ...
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... literary history of which they are a part; poets are, and always have been, the creators of other poets. This study seeks to articulate the importance of one such 'masterpiece of nature' in the creation of another, in an examination of ...
... literary history of which they are a part; poets are, and always have been, the creators of other poets. This study seeks to articulate the importance of one such 'masterpiece of nature' in the creation of another, in an examination of ...
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... literary history, but to the manifestations of those poets' work within themselves. Thus literary history becomes, for Bloom, internalized; a scene of never-ending psychic warfare occurring within the mind of the ephebe. As Bloom states ...
... literary history, but to the manifestations of those poets' work within themselves. Thus literary history becomes, for Bloom, internalized; a scene of never-ending psychic warfare occurring within the mind of the ephebe. As Bloom states ...
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... literary history' makes no concessions to history as we would conventionally understand the term, and in this he acknowledges that he works against the grain of the vast majority of contemporary literary critical trends. To accept that ...
... literary history' makes no concessions to history as we would conventionally understand the term, and in this he acknowledges that he works against the grain of the vast majority of contemporary literary critical trends. To accept that ...
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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