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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... potential for the psychological aspects of influence that Bloom uncovers to reveal the practical textual process by which one poet's works are affected by those of a precursor becomes clearer. It is this aspect of Bloom's theory ...
... potential for the psychological aspects of influence that Bloom uncovers to reveal the practical textual process by which one poet's works are affected by those of a precursor becomes clearer. It is this aspect of Bloom's theory ...
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... potentially reductive, it can be argued that a schema such as McGann's threatens to obscure through its very inclusivity. As a result, the priority accorded to the various pieces of information accumulated must finally be apportioned by ...
... potentially reductive, it can be argued that a schema such as McGann's threatens to obscure through its very inclusivity. As a result, the priority accorded to the various pieces of information accumulated must finally be apportioned by ...
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... potential ephebes at something of a critical impasse. Whilst an attempt to separate the poet from his poetry, to observe the product in isolation from the producer, may be termed reductive by Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence can fall ...
... potential ephebes at something of a critical impasse. Whilst an attempt to separate the poet from his poetry, to observe the product in isolation from the producer, may be termed reductive by Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence can fall ...
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... potentially enrich our understanding of the new poem. Intent and means are two things which Bloom consciously dismisses as irrelevant in the study of influence. Whether this represents a flaw in his model, or whether it is merely to ask ...
... potentially enrich our understanding of the new poem. Intent and means are two things which Bloom consciously dismisses as irrelevant in the study of influence. Whether this represents a flaw in his model, or whether it is merely to ask ...
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... potential negativity implied by Bloom's theory of psychological defence mechanisms. Furthermore, its focus on the transformation of language is akin to the work on figuration and its relation to influence carried out by Hollander and de ...
... potential negativity implied by Bloom's theory of psychological defence mechanisms. Furthermore, its focus on the transformation of language is akin to the work on figuration and its relation to influence carried out by Hollander and de ...
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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