Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 482 g
Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 482 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-957401-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Eminent Coleridgean scholar John Beer presents a series of biographical investigations exploring Coleridge's life, stage by stage, and reconsidering the intellectual quality of his thinking and poetry through an emphasis on the notion of 'play'. Beginning and ending with brief accounts of the poet's childhood and last years, the book's seventeen chapters each take a passage of Coleridge's life and characterise the nature and function of an abiding playful element in his consciousness. In combination they form a detailed, full, and humane treatment of Coleridge's life, focusing on topics such as his interest in psychology, his poetry, his literary collaboration with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, his hopeless love for William's sister-in-law, his literary criticism, including a new approach to Shakespeare, and his work towards a refreshing of contemporary religious beliefs and practices.
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- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Introduction
- 1: The Missing Playground
- 2: Fantastic Sportiveness
- 3: Dances of the Intellect and Emotions
- 4: Coleridge and Mackintosh: Revisionary Poet and Simpering 'Dung-Fly'
- 5: Nature, Poetry and the Vicissitudes of Love
- 6: Coleridge, Tom Wedgwood and Conceptions of the Mind
- 7: Wordsworthian Naturalism and the Coleridgean Sublime
- 8: Public Journalism, Private Affections
- 9: Politics, Principle and The Friend
- 10: Fascinations of the Esoteric
- 11: The Poet as Critic, Critic as Poet
- 12: Shakespeare's Plays of Passion
- 13: Mental Energies, Ancient and Modern
- 14: Interinvolving Guilt and Innocence
- 15: Lucency and Florescences
- 16: Questioning Closure
- 17: 'Obstinate in Resurrection'
- Index
