Exploring Coleridge's involvement with contemporary circles, this book extends from his years in Bristol and Cambridge, under the influence of scientific Jacobins and Unitarians, through to the time of his intellectual authority, and his thoughts on the Victorian Church and American transcendentalism. His creative reception of German thought and the symbiosis apparent in his friendships with such writers as Wordsworth, Lamb and De Quincey, and scientists such as Humphry Davy and J.H.Green, make up the central sections of the book.

The Coleridge Connection: Essays for Thomas McFarland

Literature & Fiction

Gravil, Richard

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Key Features:    Study methods  Introduction to the text  Summaries with critical notes  Themes and techniques  Textual analysis of key passages  Author biography  Historical and literary background  Modern and historical critical approaches  Chronology  Glossary of literary terms   

Selected Poems of Coleridge (2nd Edition)

Pearson Education Canada

This book places Wordsworth's revolutionary poetic practice, in Lyrical Ballads, in the context of a revolutionary age. It considers Wordsworth's provocative theories of how poetry should work, and includes a treatment of the famous 'Preface' to Lyrical Ballads, one of the great poetic manifestos. The main part of the book offers illuminating commentary and questions on the poems, designed to encourage readers to accept Wordsworth's invitation to 'wrestle' with the author. A final section discusses contemporary, Victorian and recent critical approaches to Wordsworth and includes an annotated guide to further reading. Richard Gravil's books include Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (Palgrave 2000), Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842 (Palgrave 2003) And Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (2010), all now available from Lulu. He is also co-editor of the monumental Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth (2015).

William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads (1798) (Literature Insights)

Biographies & Memoirs

Humanities-Ebooks

<p>This book examines the connection between William Wordsworth and the work of Helen Maria Williams and the effect this connection may have had on his reception by such hostile critics as Francis Jeffrey. Why did Wordsworth write his first published poem to Helen Maria Williams? What role did she play in forming his views of poetry, and of the French Revolution? Why was Wordsworth able to recite in 1820 a poem by Miss Williams that he first read in 1790? Was his own poetical sensibility comparable with that of the older woman? Did the reception of Wordsworth's Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey and others -as 'puerile', 'namby-pamby', 'lisping' and 'affected' - reflect a belief that manly sense and feminine sensibility, are not compatible? If so, why did Wordsworth run that risk? This little book attempts to suggest answers to some of those questions, and to provoke more systematic considerations of them all, and of Wordsworth's daring reconfiguration of 'manliness'.</p>

Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility

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The Coleridge Connection: Essays for Thomas McFarland

Selected Poems of Coleridge (2nd Edition)

William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads (1798) (Literature Insights)

Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility