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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... writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the ...
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... writes in Biographia Literaria, the imagination 'reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities' (BL ii. 16); and the Christian philosopher's mind, instinct with 'that ultimate end Introduction.
... writes in Biographia Literaria, the imagination 'reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities' (BL ii. 16); and the Christian philosopher's mind, instinct with 'that ultimate end Introduction.
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... write them at all (no author has promised—to himself, to friends, to publishers, to the public—so many unwritten works). The problem stopping him stemmed not from any particular lack of staying power or humble organizational capacity ...
... write them at all (no author has promised—to himself, to friends, to publishers, to the public—so many unwritten works). The problem stopping him stemmed not from any particular lack of staying power or humble organizational capacity ...
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... Writing' (CL i. 279). When he announces to himself, 'Seem to have made up my mind to write my metaphysical works, as my Life, & inmy Life—intermixed with all the other events / or history of the mind & fortunes of S.T. Coleridge ...
... Writing' (CL i. 279). When he announces to himself, 'Seem to have made up my mind to write my metaphysical works, as my Life, & inmy Life—intermixed with all the other events / or history of the mind & fortunes of S.T. Coleridge ...
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... writing down what he saw. As the series of notebooks progresses, the entries tend to become more polished—as though he were leaving fragments ready for his disciples posthumously to publish, or to gather into attempted syntheses of ...
... writing down what he saw. As the series of notebooks progresses, the entries tend to become more polished—as though he were leaving fragments ready for his disciples posthumously to publish, or to gather into attempted syntheses of ...
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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