Coleridge's Meditative Art / Reeve Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Reeve, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Poetry & Criticism.

Local Subjects:

Poetry & Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This study of the meditative poems seeks to define and illustrate the intricate and resourceful play characteristic of Coleridge's mind. Mr. Parker includes significant new material relating Coleridge's art to his personal literary experience, especially with Wordsworth, though Parker's emphasis throughout is on literary interpretation rather than on psychology. He gives full and rigorous readings of five poems: "Frost at Midnight,'' "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," "Hymn Before Sun-rise in the Vale of Chamouny," "Dejection: An Ode," and "To William Wordsworth." These poems, he believes, reveal that Coleridge was a far more subtle literary craftsman than has been previously recognized.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Diseases into Pearls-. "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" as Coleridgean Meditation

2. Coleridge and "Intellectual Activity''

3. Wordsworth and Coleridge: Visions of the Ideal World

4. "Frost at Midnight''.- Coleridge's Companionable Form

5. Coleridge's "Hymn Before Sun-rise'': Mont Blanc, Mon Frere, Mon Semblable

6. "Dejection.- An Ode "-. The Old Moon's Effluence

7. Wordsworth's Whelming Tide-. Coleridge and the Art of Analogy

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781501742880

1501742884

OCLC:

1129177811