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Coleridge's Dejection Ode

Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

von: J.C.C. Mays
90,94 €
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	22.01.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9783030041311
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

Coleridge's Dejection Ode completes J.C.C. Mays’ analysis of Coleridge’s poetry, following Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner (Palgrave 2016) and Coleridge’s Experimental Poetics (Palgrave 2013). "Dejection: An Ode" stands alone in Coleridge's oeuvre: written at a time of personal crisis, it reaches far back and deeply into his thinking in an attempt to find a poematic solution to ideas and problems he had mulled over for a long time. Mays reveals how the poem also marks the opening of the second half of Coleridge's career as both poet and thinker. In three central chapters Mays examines the new style that evolved in the process of writing the Ode: the technical means of metrics, rhyme and grammar; language and allusion; and symbol and structure. He recounts the complex, sometimes controversial critical history of the Ode, and suggests an editorial solution to the problem created by the Letter to Sara Hutchinson; re-evaluates the position of Wordsworth in the poem apropos the political statement it makes; clarifies the distinction between the views on Imagination expressed and those contained in Biographia Literaria; and traces the links of the concept "dejection" as it underpins Coleridge's late poems.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The Case to be Made.-  Chapter 2: How We Got Where We Are As We Cease To Be There.- Chapter 3: Editorial Excursion.-  Chapter 4: The Sweet New Style.-  Chapter 5: Language and Allusion.-  Chapter 6: Shape into Form.-  Chapter 7: Understanding Feeling.-  Chapter 8 Testing the Pulse.-   Chapter 9: Beyond the Poem.

Autorenportrait

J.C.C. Mays is Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Back cover copy

Coleridge's Dejection Ode completes J.C.C. Mays’ analysis of Coleridge’s poetry, following Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner (Palgrave 2016) and Coleridge’s Experimental Poetics (Palgrave 2013). "Dejection: An Ode" stands alone in Coleridge's oeuvre: written at a time of personal crisis, it reaches far back and deeply into his thinking in an attempt to find a poematic solution to ideas and problems he had mulled over for a long time. Mays reveals how the poem also marks the opening of the second half of Coleridge's career as both poet and thinker. In three central chapters Mays examines the new style that evolved in the process of writing the Ode: the technical means of metrics, rhyme and grammar; language and allusion; and symbol and structure. He recounts the complex, sometimes controversial critical history of the Ode, and suggests an editorial solution to the problem created by the Letter to Sara Hutchinson; re-evaluates the position ofWordsworth in the poem apropos the political statement it makes; clarifies the distinction between the views on Imagination expressed and those contained in Biographia Literaria; and traces the links of the concept "dejection" as it underpins Coleridge's late poems.

Sonderbeitrag

Reevaluates the position of Wordsworth in “Dejection: An Ode” and its political statement Clarifies Coleridge’s concepts of “imagination” and “dejection” Examines the second half of Coleridge’s career and his changing style

Unpublished endorsement

“J. C. C. Mays provides a comprehensive interpretation of Coleridge’s ‘Dejection Ode,’ elucidating the poem as a bold aesthetic statement that would frame the future of Coleridge’s literary career. Through his lifelong study of Coleridge’s poetry, Mays has become highly adept at articulating the subtle nuances and unspoken implications of Coleridge’s writing, while he remains averse to premature closure in the quest for critical understanding. This important study offers fascinating insights and actively engages the reader in its process of discovery.” (James C. McKusick, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, author of Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology (2000) and President of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association)