Worthen, John
The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge / By John Worthen - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xiii, 148p.
Includes bibliography and index.
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.
English.
9780521746434
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Poetic works--Criticism and interpretation
Romanticism--Historical and literary analysis--English poetry
English poetry--Romantic period--History and criticism
Poets, English--Samuel Taylor Coleridge--Biography
Imagination in literature--Coleridge’s contributions--Studies
Philosophy in literature--Coleridge’s influence--Analysis
821.7 / WOR-C
The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge / By John Worthen - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xiii, 148p.
Includes bibliography and index.
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.
English.
9780521746434
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Poetic works--Criticism and interpretation
Romanticism--Historical and literary analysis--English poetry
English poetry--Romantic period--History and criticism
Poets, English--Samuel Taylor Coleridge--Biography
Imagination in literature--Coleridge’s contributions--Studies
Philosophy in literature--Coleridge’s influence--Analysis
821.7 / WOR-C