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Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Language of Allusion (Oxford English Monographs) - Softcover

Newlyn, Lucy

 
9780199242597: Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Language of Allusion (Oxford English Monographs)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199242593 ISBN 13: 9780199242597
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

In her study of two creative minds, Lucy Newlyn offers a startlingly new version of the poetic interaction between Coleridge and Wordsworth during the critical years from 1797 to 1807. Rejecting the traditional accounts, even those given by the poets themselves, which have minimized the differences between the two, Newlyn demonstrates that it is only on the most superficial level that each poet seemed to be the other's ideal audience. Below that surface, she insists, there were radical dissimilarities between the two which led to a kind of "creative" misunderstanding by which each artist clearly defined himself in relation to the other. Because it is in the poet's "private language" of allusion that these differences are most clearly seen, the book concludes that this "private language" spoken by artists amongst themselves may in fact be the most aggressive of literary forms.

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About the Author

Lucy Newlyn is Fellow and Tutor in English at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199242593
ISBN 13 
9780199242597
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
274