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Zusatztext Organising Poetry is a book that forces us to clarify not only which Coleridge we are talking about but also which organicisn and, ultimately, which Romanticism, for it defamiliarizes the Romanticism theorized into being through the breathless pronouncements of the idealist tradition. Fairer;s study represents scholarly craftsmanship of the highest order; its analytical integrity is elegant and unwavering: an indispensable book that will invite frequent reengagement. Informationen zum Autor David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. His most recent book is English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 (Longman, 2003). He is also the author of Pope's Imagination (1984), The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1989), and editor of Pope: New Contexts (1990), The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (University of Georgia Press, 1995), and the first complete printing of Warton's History of English Poetry (Routledge, 1998). With Christine Gerrard he has edited Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, Second Edition, 2004). Klappentext Writing their early poetry during the 1790s, a decade of European revolution, Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends have always been thought of as 'the First-Generation Romantics'. This book challenges that concept by viewing them from an entirely new perspective as poets who were continuing an eighteenth-century 'organic' tradition. Zusammenfassung Writing their early poetry during the 1790s, a decade of European revolution, Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends have always been thought of as 'the First-Generation Romantics'. This book challenges that concept by viewing them from an entirely new perspective as poets who were continuing an eighteenth-century 'organic' tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'one common life' I 1: Organicism: The Idealist Tradition 2: Organic Constitutions: Identity 3: Organic Constitutions: History II 4: 'Sweet native stream!': Approaching Tintern Abbey 5: Southey's Literary History: Poetry in Retrospect 6: Between Youth and Age: Coleridge's Monody on the Death of Chatterton, 1790-6 7: Putting his Poems Together: Coleridge's First Volume (1796) 8: Coleridge's Sonnets from Various Authors (1796): A Lost Conversation Poem? 9: Organising Friendship: Coleridge, Lamb, and Lloyd 10: A Matter of Emphasis: Coleridge and Thelwall, 1796-7 11: Returning to the Ruined Cottage 12: 'Look homeward Angel now': Prospects and Fears in 1798 Postscript Bibliography Index ...
