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This title is a study of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, describing
its complex fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative, and
loss, and its doubts about its own artfulness.
Meeting Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most memorable experiences, and many of his contemporaries left vivid records--Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats, Emerson, and many now forgotten. This book is a comprehensive, fully annotated collection of such reminiscences. Drawing on an eclectic range of material (including journals, letters, poems, and comic portraits), and printing many texts otherwise difficult to access, it will prove an invaluable resource for students of romanticism, as well as a treasure-trove for Coleridge's many fans.
Meeting Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most memorable
experiences, and many of his contemporaries left vivid records -
Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats, Emerson and many others, often
now forgotten. This book is a comprehensive, fully annotated
collection of such reminiscences. Drawing on an eclectic range of
materials (including private journals, letters, poems, and comic
portraits), and printing many texts otherwise difficult to access,
it will prove an invaluable resource for students of romanticism,
as well as a treasure-trove for Coleridge's many admirers.
The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is not far from a century
old, and it has still not been surpassed as the most famous of all
modern poems. In many ways, it continues to define what we mean by
modern whenever we begin to speak about modern verse. At the same
time, as Ted Hughes once observed, it is also genuinely popular,
and not just among the cogniscenti or the degree-bearing. "I
remember when I taught fourteen-year-old boys in a secondary modern
school," Hughes once said, "of all the poetry I introduced them to,
their favourite was The Waste Land." Not for nothing was it
included, in its entirety, in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century
English Verse (1973), edited by Philip Larkin, a poet not known
otherwise for his hospitality to modernism. The poem's appeal is
intellectual, certainly, but also visceral. It fulfils in miniature
the demands that Eliot made of the great poet at large: "abundance,
variety, and complete competence" - the first of those criteria of
greatness all the more surprising, and moving, to find accomplished
in a poem that has its starting place in so barren a human
territory. The poetry is modern in a wholly self-conscious way, but
the modernity of Eliot's poem stems in large part from a strikingly
powerful awareness of what's past. In this book, the Oxford scholar
Seamus Perry points out some of the fruits of that acute historical
awareness - and shares his own admiration of, and pleasure in, the
extraordinary voicings and counter-voicings of this perpetually
great work.
While postcolonial studies of Romantic-period literature have
flourished in recent years, scholars have long neglected the extent
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with the Orient in both his
literary and philsophical writings. Bringing together leading
international writers, Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient is the
first substantial exploration of Coleridge's literary and scholarly
representations of the east and the ways in which these were
influenced by and went on to influence his own work and the
orientalism of the Romanticists more broadly. Bringing together
postcolonial, philsophical, historicist and literary-critical
perspectives, this groundbreaking book develops a new understanding
of 'Orientalism' that recognises the importance of colonial
ideologies in Romantic representations of the East as well as
appreciating the unique forms of meaning and value which authors
such as Coleridge asscoiated with the Orient.
While postcolonial studies of Romantic-period literature have
flourished in recent years, scholars have long neglected the extent
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with the Orient in both his
literary and philsophical writings. Bringing together leading
international writers, Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient is the
first substantial exploration of Coleridge's literary and scholarly
representations of the east and the ways in which these were
influenced by and went on to influence his own work and the
orientalism of the Romanticists more broadly. Bringing together
postcolonial, philsophical, historicist and literary-critical
perspectives, this groundbreaking book develops a new understanding
of 'Orientalism' that recognises the importance of colonial
ideologies in Romantic representations of the East as well as
appreciating the unique forms of meaning and value which authors
such as Coleridge asscoiated with the Orient.
Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these
essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its
lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of
criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards
Tennyson in particular) a number of influential recent accounts of
Victorian poetry have rediscovered the virtues of a closer style of
reading and the benefits and pleasures of an approach that, without
at all ignoring social and cultural contexts, approaches them
through a primary alertness to textual detail and literary history.
This volume, including entirely commissioned work by a wide range
of critics and scholars from across the profession in both Britain
and North America, seeks to bring such forms of attention to bear
on the immense variety of Tennyson's career by exploring the
complex and multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers
- his predecessors, his contemporaries, and his successors.
Collectively, the essays describe an intricate network of
affiliation and indebtedness, resistance and reconciliation. They
provide a unique assessment of Tennyson's origins, work, and
imaginative legacy as he enters upon his third century.
Faced with Coleridge's irresolution and fragmentariness, critics have often declared him a failure. This study champions that failure as an oblique kind of success - the fruit of a virtuous and fertile indecision between rival imaginative vocations, each good but incompatible. Covering the entire range of his religious and philosophical prose and criticism, it also offers close readings of the major poems and describes afresh the momentous relationship with Wordsworth.
Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most enigmatic figures; his Notebooks one of the key prose works of the period. This new selection represents the full range of his most attractive and diverting prose writings. The selected passages have been re-edited and annotated by Seamus Perry, to provide vital reading to anyone interested in the Romantic period.
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