Coleridge's Notebooks: A SelectionSeamus Perry Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language, and co-author, with Wordsworth, of Lyrical Ballads; one of England's greatest critics and theorists of literature and imagination; as well as autobiographer, nature-writer, philosopher, theologian, psychologist and distinguished speaker. Throughout his life, he confided his thoughts and emotions to his notebooks, where we can still see his speculations and observations taking shape. This edition presents a selection from this unique work, newly presented, with notes and commentary, for the student as well as the general reader. |
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... dream analysis beside his responses to politics, close readings of poems and high-spirited etymological speculations next to jokes and puns and stories and Irish bulls, breathlessly immediate accounts of climbing the Cumbrian mountains ...
... dream analysis beside his responses to politics, close readings of poems and high-spirited etymological speculations next to jokes and puns and stories and Irish bulls, breathlessly immediate accounts of climbing the Cumbrian mountains ...
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... dream life, on which he bestows an unprecedented attentiveness: Ghost of a mountain / the forms seizing my body, as I passed, became realities – I, a Ghost, till I had reconquered my Substance / There are too, as we would expect, some ...
... dream life, on which he bestows an unprecedented attentiveness: Ghost of a mountain / the forms seizing my body, as I passed, became realities – I, a Ghost, till I had reconquered my Substance / There are too, as we would expect, some ...
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... dreams, repeating jokes, and crying out about Sara Hutchinson, as well as Coleridge the theorist of imagination, the antagonist of Lockean empiricism, and the close reader of Shakespeare. I hope I have managed to include most of the ...
... dreams, repeating jokes, and crying out about Sara Hutchinson, as well as Coleridge the theorist of imagination, the antagonist of Lockean empiricism, and the close reader of Shakespeare. I hope I have managed to include most of the ...
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... Dreams sometimes useful by giving to the well-grounded fears & hopes of the understanding the feelings of vivid sense. Love transforms the souls into a ... dream things & forms in themselves 6 [45‒56 The West Country 1794–1798.
... Dreams sometimes useful by giving to the well-grounded fears & hopes of the understanding the feelings of vivid sense. Love transforms the souls into a ... dream things & forms in themselves 6 [45‒56 The West Country 1794–1798.
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A Selection Seamus Perry. In a distempered dream things & forms in themselves common & harmless inflict a terror ... dreaming 57‒61] 7 The West Country 1794–1798.
A Selection Seamus Perry. In a distempered dream things & forms in themselves common & harmless inflict a terror ... dreaming 57‒61] 7 The West Country 1794–1798.
Contents
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2 Germany London the Lakes 17981804 | 11 |
3 London Malta Italy 18041806 | 56 |
4 The Lakes London 18061810 | 93 |
5 London Wiltshire 18101816 | 120 |
Highgate 18161820 | 128 |
Commentary | 134 |
Index | 258 |
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