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List of contents
1. Coleridge at 250: a Poet for the Twenty-first Century Tim Fulford; 2. Political Coleridge Jacob Lloyd; 3. Coleridge and Collaboration Felicity James; 4. Nature Lyrics Gregory Leadbetter; 5. Coleridge's Ecopoetics Joanna E. Taylor; 6. Gothic Coleridge, Ballad Coleridge Margaret Russett; 7. Coleridge's Metres Ewan James Jones; 8. Coleridge and the Theatre Michael Gamer and Jeffrey N. Cox; 9. Coleridge the Walker Alan Vardy; 10. Notebook Coleridge Thomas Owens; 11. Coleridge and Science Kurtis Hessel; 12. Religious Coleridge Jeffrey W. Barbeau; 13. Coleridge the Lecturer and Critic Charles W. Mahoney; 14. Coleridge's Philosophies Nicholas Halmi; 15. Coleridge's Later Poetry Karen Swann; 16. Coleridge and History Tom Duggett.
About the author
Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University and Director of the Biennial Coleridge Conference. He is the winner of the 2019 Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Scholarship.
Summary
This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in relation to slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder and ecological crisis. Through detailed engagement with Coleridge's pioneering poetry, the reader is invited to explore fundamental questions on themes ranging from nature and trauma to gender and sexuality. Essays by leading Coleridge scholars analyse and render accessible his extraordinarily innovative thinking about dreams, psychoanalysis, genius and symbolism. Coleridge is often a direct and gripping writer, yet he is also elusive and diverse. This Companion's great achievement is to offer a one-volume entry point into his incomparably rich and varied world.
Foreword
This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance now, 250 years after his birth.
