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This book endorses Coleridge's statement: "nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so". It conceives 'Kubla Khan' as of a hypnotic poem, in which the "obtrusive rhythms" produce a hypnotic, emotionally heightened response, giving false security to the "Platonic Censor", so that our imagination is left free to explore higher levels of uncertainty. Critics intolerant of uncertainty tend to account for the poem's effect by extraneous background information. The book consists of three parts employing different research methods. Part One is speculative, and discusses three aspects of a complex aesthetic event: the verbal structure of 'Kubla Khan', validity in interpretation, and the influence of the critic's decision style on his critical decisions. The other two parts are empirical. Part Two explores reader response to gestalt qualities of rhyme patterns and hypnotic poems in perspective of decision style and professional training. Part Three submits four recordings of the poem by leading British actors to instrumental investigation.

Poetics --- Cognitive styles. --- Psychological aspects. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,

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In an original and provocative demonstration that Coleridge's later poetry took on a powerful metaphysical conception, Edward Kessler emphasizes Coleridge's struggle with language as a means of both expressing and creating Being. While many of Coleridge's late poems are generally viewed as fragments that constitute an aesthetic failure, Professor Kessler contends that what at first may appear to reflect Coleridge's inability to finish a poem can otherwise be seen as a deliberate rejection of what the poet came to see as a confining form.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Any reader engaging the work of Keats, Shelley, or Coleridge must confront the role biography has played in the canonization of each. Each archive is saturated with stories of the life prematurely cut off or, in Coleridge’s case, of promise wasted in indolence. One confronts reminiscences of contemporaries who describe subjects singularly unsuited to this world, as well as still stranger materials—death masks, bits of bone, locks of hair, a heart—initially preserved by circles and then circulating more widely, often in tandem with bits of the literary corpus.Especially when it centers on the early deaths of Keats and Shelley, biographical interest tends to be dismissed as a largely Victorian and sentimental phenomenon that we should by now have put behind us. And yet a line of verse by these poets can still trigger associations with biographical detail in ways that spark pathos or produce intimations of prolepsis or fatality, even for readers suspicious of such effects. Biographical fascination—the untoward and involuntary clinging of attention to the biographical subject—is thus “posthumous” in Keats’s evocative sense of the term, its life equivocally sustained beyond its period.Lives of the Dead Poets takes seriously the biographical fascination that has dogged the prematurely arrested figures of three romantic poets. Arising in tandem with a sense of the threatened end of poetry’s allotted period, biographical fascination personalizes the precariousness of poetry, binding poetry, the poet-function, and readers to an irrecuperable singularity. Reading romantic poets together with the modernity of Benjamin and Baudelaire, Swann shows how poets’ afterlives offer an opening for poetry’s survival, from its first nineteenth-century death sentences into our present.

English poetry --- Poets, English --- History and criticism. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, --- Keats, John, --- Allegory. --- Biography. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. --- Commodity. --- Keats, John. --- Poet. --- Posthumous life. --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe.

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Wordsworth, William, --- Wœ̄tsawœ̄t, Winlīam, --- Wurdzwurth, Wilyam, --- Varḍsavartha Viliyama, --- Axiologus, --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer Ford's emphasis is on analysing the ways in which dreaming processes were construed, by Coleridge in his dream readings, and by his contemporaries in a range of poetic and medical works. This historical exploration of dreams and dreaming allows Ford to explore previously neglected contemporary debates on 'the medical imagination'. By avoiding purely biographical or psychoanalytic approaches, she reveals instead a rich historical context for the ways in which the most mysterious workings of the Romantic imagination were explored and understood.

Dromen in de literatuur --- Rêves dans la littérature --- Dreams in literature --- Poets, English --- Poetry --- Dreams --- Romanticism --- Psychology --- Psychological aspects --- History --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Knowledge --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor --- Poets [English ] --- 19th century --- 18th century --- England --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, - 1772-1834 - Knowledge - Psychology. --- Poets, English - 19th century - Psychology. --- Poetry - Psychological aspects. --- Dreams - History - 18th century. --- Dreams - History - 19th century. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Poets, English - 19th century - Psychology --- Poetry - Psychological aspects --- Dreams - History - 18th century --- Dreams - History - 19th century --- Romanticism - England --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, - 1772-1834 - Knowledge - Psychology --- Dreams in literature. --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, - 1772-1834