Coleridge's Imagination: Essays in Memory of Pete Laver Contributor(s): Gravil, Richard (Editor), Newlyn, Lucy (Editor), Roe, Nicholas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0511659326 ISBN-13: 9780511659324 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $140.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.7 |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The unifying thrust of the book is an exploration of the tension in Coleridge's theory and practice between the Imagination and the Natural, and a delineation of the particular profile of Coleridge's imagination as compared to that of Wordsworth. There are challenging reassessments of Dejection: an Ode, Christabel and Kubla Khan, among other poems; a cluster of essays on the relations between Coleridge and Wordsworth; a strikingly original examination of Coleridge's imagination at work in the privacy of his notebooks; and an intriguing study of the neglected imagination of Mrs Coleridge. The volume opens and closes with major statements by Jonathan Wordsworth on Coleridge's primary imagination and by John Beer on Kubla Khan, and includes work by such eminent scholars as Thomas MacFarland, David Erdman, Norman Fruman, Robert Barth, Anthony Harding, and Stephen Parrish. |