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Title:
The Cambridge introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge / John Worthen.
Author:
Worthen, John.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Call Number:
PR4484 .W67 2010
ISBN:
9780521762823

9780521746434
Series:
Cambridge introductions to literature

Cambridge introductions to literature.
Physical Description:
xiii, 148 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Series from p. [4] of cover.
Contents:
Early life and contexts : 1772-1802: -- The least beloved -- Unitarian -- Pantisocrat and democrat -- Journalist -- Friend -- Self-watcher -- Metaphysician and Kantian -- Opium user -- Lover -- Writer -- Poetry: -- The poetry of extreme states -- the unfinished, the revised -- 'The rime of the ancient mariner' -- Christabel -- Kubla Khan -- Conversation poems -- Letter poems and dejection -- 'Asra' poems -- Theatre writing -- Later poetry -- Notebooks: -- Keeping notebooks -- A writer's life : nine kinds of notebook entry -- The notebook as commonplace book -- Dreams, fantasies, terrors -- Travel writing and the natural world -- Coleridge revealed -- What do the notebooks omit? -- Reading the notebooks -- Mid-life and contexts : 1803-1814: -- The friend -- Coleridge and the operation of the senses -- Incipient disaster -- Language: -- The right word -- The language of thought -- The origins of language -- Grammar -- Words as things -- Poetry and prose -- The natural language of poetry -- Copying and coining -- Language's debt to Coleridge -- Criticism: -- Shakespeare lectures -- Other Shakespeare criticism -- Criticism in notebooks and marginalia -- Biographia literaria -- The attack on Wordsworth -- Fancy and imagination -- The publication and problems of the Biographia -- The nature of the Biographia -- Another kind of autobiography -- Intellectual property and the Biographia -- Onwards from the Biographia -- Later works and contexts : 1815-1834: -- Religion -- Lay sermons -- Faustus -- Aids to reflection -- On the constitution of the church and state -- Later life -- Talking and thinking -- Logic and Opus maximum -- Afterword.
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