Towards a Romantic Conception of Nature: Coleridge's Poetry up to 1803: A study in the history of ideas

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John Benjamins Publishing, 1984 M01 1 - 214 páginas
This study describes in detail the development of Coleridge s attitude to nature as it is reflected in his poetry. It analyses the different stages of Coleridge s search for a meaningful relation to nature from an uncritical adoption of the eighteenth century conventions in his early poetry to a projectionist view in his poems of 1802. It offers challenging new readings of some of Coleridge s major poems like The Ancient Mariner and Dejection: an Ode , and tries to rehabilitate some minor ones, like The Picture . Attention is also paid to his relation with Wordsworth. It discusses in detail the philosophical background of Coleridge s views and considers the contribution of German thought to his development. As a whole this study affords a new insight into the genesis of romanticism in England.
 

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INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER I THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TRADITION OF NATURE POETRY
13
CHAPTER II THE TRADITIONAL CHARACTER OF COLERIDGES EARLYPOETRY
25
CHAPTER III THE 1796 POEMS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND
33
CHAPTER IV COLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH IN 1797THEIR INTEREST IN EVIL AND ALIENATION
55
THE ANCIENT MARINER
65
A COMPANION PIECE TO THE ANCIENT MARINER
95
CHAPTER VII A BRIEF SURVEY OF CONTINENTAL IDEAS ON MAN ANDNATURE
103
DEJECTION AN ODE
133
AN ODE
147
ROMANTIC IRONY IN THE PICTURE
153
CONCLUSION
169
NOTES
173
BIBLIOGRAPHY
203
INDEX
209
INDEX OF COLERIDGES WORKS
213

17991803
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