A Letter, his earliest expression of protest, was a reply to Bishop Richard Watson's Appendix to his Sermon to the Stewards of the Westminster Dispensary, 25 January 1793, and, less directly, to Burke.” Watson was shocked by the ...
... interested in the theory of 'Association' especially as developed by the psychologist David Hartley (1705–57) and ... for the themes of memory and imagination in both poets (though Coleridge eventually rejected Hartley's version).
But, although Averill adroitly summarises this process as stressing either 'what is told (Martha's story) or the way it is told (the sea-captain's role)', his own approach does have the benefit of novelty — despite his overall dismissal ...
This reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets presents a detailed examination of both writers' debts to radical dissent in the years before 1789.
This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the 'Lyrical Ballads' as they appeared to Coleridge's and Wordsworth's contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems.
This work is an intensive exploration of six early texts of three icons of Engilsh-speaking culture: William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations on Immoratlity from Recollections of Early Childhood" and "Resolution and...
See Stephen Prickett, Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads (London: Edward Arnold, 1975), 15. 7. Quoted in John Spencer Hill, A Coleridge Companion (London: Macmillan,1984), 105. 8. Coleridge adds a fragmentary “voice” to ...
Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the...
Lyrical Ballads have always been wedded to controversy. Though the judgments of the periodicals and the ensuing authorial reaction have long since been superseded by a plethora of scholarly interpretations,...
Providing students with the critical and analytical skills with which to approach the poems, and offering guidance on further study, this stimulating book is essential reading.
... Circle; The Silenced Partner (New York, 2012); Yasmin Solomonescu, John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination (Basingstoke, 2014). For John Thelwall's poetry, see in particular David Fairer, 'A Matter of Emphasis: Coleridge and Thelwall ...
This work is an intensive exploration of six early texts of three icons of Engilsh-speaking culture: William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations on Immoratlity from Recollections of Early Childhood" and "Resolution and Independence," and Samuel ...