Towards a romantic conception of nature : Coleridge's poetry up to 1803 : a study in the history of ideas / H.R. Rookmaaker, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rookmaaker, H. R. (Hendrik Roelof)

Series:

Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ; v. 20.

Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature, 0167-8175 ; v. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature in literature.

Philosophy of nature.

Romanticism--England.

Romanticism.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study describes in detail the development of Coleridge's attitude to nature as it is reflected in his poetry. It analyses the different stages of Coleridge's search for a meaningful relation to nature from an uncritical adoption of the eighteenth century conventions in his early poetry to a projectionist view in his poems of 1802. It offers challenging new readings of some of Coleridge's major poems like 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Dejection: an Ode', and tries to rehabilitate some minor ones, like 'The Picture'. Attention is also paid to his relation with Wordsworth. It discusses in detai

Contents:

TOWARDS A ROMANTIC CONCEPTION OF NATURE: COLERIDGE'S POETRY UP TO 1803; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TRADITION OF NATURE POETRY; CHAPTER II. THE TRADITIONAL CHARACTER OF COLERIDGE'S EARLY POETRY; CHAPTER III. THE 1796 POEMS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND; CHAPTER IV. COLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH IN 1797; THEIR INTEREST IN EVIL AND ALIENATION; CHAPTER V. ALIENATION RECONSIDERED: THE ANCIENT MARINER'; CHAPTER VI. TROST AT MIDNIGHT':A COMPANION PIECE TO THE ANCIENT MARINER'

CHAPTER VII. A BRIEF SURVEY OF CONTINENTAL IDEAS ON MAN AND NATURE CHAPTER VIII. A MOVEMENT AWAY FROM EMPIRICISM, TOWARDS THE 'ONE LIFE' IDEA: 1799-1803; CHAPTER IX. THE 'ONE LIFE' AND ALIENATION: 'DEJECTION: AN ODE'; CHAPTER X. 'KUBLA KHAN' AND ITS IDEATIONAL RESEMBLANCE TO'DEJECTION: AN ODE'; CHAPTER XI. REALITY AND DREAM: ROMANTIC IRONY IN 'THE PICTURE'; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; INDEX OF COLERIDGE'S WORKS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-42468-1

9786613424686

90-272-7989-6

OCLC:

769344144