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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... early stage of this selected edition. My principal indebtedness is to the British Library, which holds the manuscripts from which these entries have been transcribed: my thanks to the staff of the manuscript reading room, who have been ...
... early stage of this selected edition. My principal indebtedness is to the British Library, which holds the manuscripts from which these entries have been transcribed: my thanks to the staff of the manuscript reading room, who have been ...
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... early version of 'Frost at Midnight') 'the self-watching subtilizing mind'—in another phrase, 'the flux and reflux of the mind in all its subtlest thoughts and feelings' (CPWi. 241 n.; BL ii. 21). What sort of mind was it? No other ...
... early version of 'Frost at Midnight') 'the self-watching subtilizing mind'—in another phrase, 'the flux and reflux of the mind in all its subtlest thoughts and feelings' (CPWi. 241 n.; BL ii. 21). What sort of mind was it? No other ...
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... Early Years, – , ed. Ernest de Selincourt, rev. Chester L. Shaver (Oxford, 1967). WPrW The Prose ... early volumes, and his unreliable memoirist in Early RecollectHC JC RS SC SH ions, Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel ...
... Early Years, – , ed. Ernest de Selincourt, rev. Chester L. Shaver (Oxford, 1967). WPrW The Prose ... early volumes, and his unreliable memoirist in Early RecollectHC JC RS SC SH ions, Chiefly Relating to the Late Samuel ...
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... early readers of the manuscripts, as used by CN, and as detailed in the British Library manuscript catalogue); the page number (as paginated by the British Library), recto or verso (v); and, prefixed by the symbol §, the number of the ...
... early readers of the manuscripts, as used by CN, and as detailed in the British Library manuscript catalogue); the page number (as paginated by the British Library), recto or verso (v); and, prefixed by the symbol §, the number of the ...
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... early entries, and many of the entries after 1808, are very hard to be specific about, and the reader should not place too much weight on my ordering of material from these periods without consulting Coburn's scrupulously informative ...
... early entries, and many of the entries after 1808, are very hard to be specific about, and the reader should not place too much weight on my ordering of material from these periods without consulting Coburn's scrupulously informative ...
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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