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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Page ix
... passages of literary criticism and poetic comment, often anticipating in more immediate and vigorous language the insights that would find a more formal and often abstract expression in his published works: Idly talk they who speak of ...
... passages of literary criticism and poetic comment, often anticipating in more immediate and vigorous language the insights that would find a more formal and often abstract expression in his published works: Idly talk they who speak of ...
Page xi
... passages in their entirety. Snippets of material from the Notebook first appeared publicly in Omniana, or Horae Otiosiores ('About Everything, or Leisure Hours'), coauthored with Southey, and published by Longman in 1812. Omniana begins ...
... passages in their entirety. Snippets of material from the Notebook first appeared publicly in Omniana, or Horae Otiosiores ('About Everything, or Leisure Hours'), coauthored with Southey, and published by Longman in 1812. Omniana begins ...
Page xiii
... passages which the secondary literature about Coleridge often discusses; and some less familiar ones too. Throughout, I have tried to keep in mind which entries were likely to be of most interest to the general reader, to admirers of ...
... passages which the secondary literature about Coleridge often discusses; and some less familiar ones too. Throughout, I have tried to keep in mind which entries were likely to be of most interest to the general reader, to admirers of ...
Page xx
... passage), I have incorporated it without notice in the text; where the addition is obviously much later, or where its incorporation would knock the sentence in question too badly out of grammatical shape, I have reserved it for the ...
... passage), I have incorporated it without notice in the text; where the addition is obviously much later, or where its incorporation would knock the sentence in question too badly out of grammatical shape, I have reserved it for the ...
Page xxi
... passage sponding to an excerpt from within a note as printed by Coburn, my entry obviously has no § number, and I have given only the number of the page.) Dating the entries is sometimes very easy (when Coleridge has dated them himself); ...
... passage sponding to an excerpt from within a note as printed by Coburn, my entry obviously has no § number, and I have given only the number of the page.) Dating the entries is sometimes very easy (when Coleridge has dated them himself); ...
Contents
1 | |
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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