Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Informationen zum Autor John Worthen is Professor Emeritus of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham. Klappentext Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative introduction discusses his interest in language and his extraordinary private notebooks, as well as his poems, his literary criticism and his biography. John Worthen presents a range of readings of Coleridge's work, along with biographical context and historical background. Discussion of Coleridge's notebooks alongside his poems illuminates this rich material and finds it a way into his creativity. Readers are invited to see Coleridge as an immensely self-aware, witty and charismatic writer who, although damaged by an opium habit, responded to and in his turn influenced the literary, political, religious and scientific thinking of his time. Zusammenfassung Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This introduction discusses his poems! his literary criticism and his life. Coleridge emerges as an immensely self-aware! witty and charismatic writer in the context of the literary! political! religious and scientific thinking of his time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Early life and contexts: 1772?02; 2. Poetry; 3. Notebooks; 4. Mid-life works and contexts: 1803?14; 5. Language; 6. Criticism; 7. Later works and contexts: 1815?34; Afterword; Further reading.

Product details

• Authors: John Worthen, John (University of Nottingham) Worthen, Worthen John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521746434
• ISBN: 978-0-521-74643-4
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets