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Experience Into Thought: Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks

Experience Into Thought: Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks

Paperback

Series: Alexander Lectures

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1442639261
ISBN13: 9781442639263
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1979
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.26 Width: 4.72 Depth: 7.48
Language: English

Coleridge is admired as a genius and derided as an opium addict and plagiarist. The aim here has been to examine his experiences, moods, thoughts, and reactions as a whole and their relation to poems such as Christabel, the Ancient Mariner, and the Dejection ode, and to his prose works, and also to look at many of his own statements made mainly in the privacy of his notebooks about his aims and purposes. The result of the new compound should alter some of the uninformed and prejudiced generalizations about Coleridge. The new picture is of a man and poet more human, more inquiring, more sceptical, whose strength and intellectual stature can fully be understood only against a background of suffering and loneliness; a critical, radical imagination is seen not only struggling to survive but to achieve creatively in the process.

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