Coleridge's Imagination: Essays in Memory of Pete Laver - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521033993 ISBN 13: 9780521033992

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The unifying thrust of the book is an exploration of the tension in Coleridge's theory and practice between the Imagination and the Natural, and a delineation of the particular profile of Coleridge's imagination as compared to that of Wordsworth. There are challenging reassessments of Dejection: an Ode, Christabel and Kubla Khan, among other poems; a cluster of essays on the relations between Coleridge and Wordsworth; a strikingly original examination of Coleridge's imagination at work in the privacy of his notebooks; and an intriguing study of the neglected imagination of Mrs Coleridge. The volume opens and closes with major statements by Jonathan Wordsworth on Coleridge's primary imagination and by John Beer on Kubla Khan, and includes work by such eminent scholars as Thomas MacFarland, David Erdman, Norman Fruman, Robert Barth, Anthony Harding, and Stephen Parrish.

About this title

Book Description

This volume, dedicated to the memory of Peter Laver, who was for a number of years librarian of Dove Cottage, explores the tension in Coleridge's theory and practice between the Imagination and the Natural, and a delineation of the particular profile of Coleridge's imagination as compared to that of Wordsworth.

About the Author

Richard Gravil is Reader in Literary Studies at the University College of St. Mark and St. John.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521033993
• ISBN 13: 9780521033992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Gravil Richard, Newlyn Lucy, Roe Nicholas