Wordsworth and Coleridge : promising losses / Peter Larkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larkin, Peter, 1946- author.

Series:

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation.

Wordsworth, William.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Criticism and interpretation.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Romanticism--England.

Romanticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

Physical Description:

xii, 267 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin's original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the uniting narrative thread. Interpreting the ways Wordsworth and Coleridge used the resources of imagination at crucial moments in their creative lives, this book reveals how they struggled to assimilate the intricacies of Romantic vision preoccupying their contemporary writers and critics. Ultimately, the essays here demonstrate that these two major poets are able to inject fresh cross-currents of their own into the anti-canonical swell and furnish a poetics of Romantic promise. Book jacket.

Contents:

Wordsworth's "After-Sojourn" : revision and unself-rivalry in the later poetry

The secondary Wordsworth's first of homes : home at Grasmere

Wordsworth's cloud of texture

Lyrical ballads : Wordsworth's book of questions

Relations of scarcity : ecology and eschatology in The ruined cottage

Scarcity by gift : horizons of the "Lucy" poems

Scarcely on the way : the starkness of things in sacral space

Wordsworth's maculate exception : achieving the "Spots of Time"

Imagining naming shaping : stanza VI of "Dejection : An ode"

"Fears in Solitude" : reading (from) the Dell

"I mourn to thee" : dedication and insufficiency in "Constancy to an Ideal Object"

"Frost at Midnight" : some Coleridgean intertwinings

Coleridge conversing : between soliloquy and invocation

Repetition, difference, and liturgical participation in Coleridge's "The Ancient Mariner"

Voice, judgment, and the innocence of self in Coleridge

Brushwood by inflection, 2.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-253) and index.

ISBN:

9780230337367

0230337368

OCLC:

757475457