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Murder ballads : exhuming the body buried beneath Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
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ISBN: 9780692734629 Year: 2016 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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In 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were engaged in a top secret experiment. This was not, as many assume, the creation of a book of poetry. A book emerged, to be sure—the landmark Lyrical Ballads. But in Murder Ballads, David John Brennan posits that the two poets were in fact pursuing far different ends: to birth from their poems a singular, idealized Poet. Despite their success, such Frankensteinian pursuits proved rife with consequence for the men. Doubts and questions plagued them: What does it mean to be a poet if your work is not your own? Who is best fit to lay claim to a parcel of poetic property that was collaboratively crafted and bequeathed to a fictitious Poet? How does one kill a Poet born of one’s own hand? Blending critical examination with jocular playlets-in-verse featuring the authors of the two books in baffled conversation, Murder Ballads reopens a 200-year-old cold case that never received a proper investigation: Who was the first true Author of Lyrical Ballads, and how exactly did he die?


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Coleridge's laws : a study of Coleridge in Malta
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ISBN: 9781906924140 1906924139 1906924147 2821816987 1906924120 9781906924133 9781906924126 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Open Book,

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for one, quite short, period of his life he held real political power – acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. This was a formative experience for Coleridge which he later identified as being one of the most instructive in his entire life. In this volume Barry Hough and Howard Davis show how Coleridge’s actions whilst in a position of power differ markedly from the idealism he had advocated before taking office – shedding new light on Coleridge’s sense of political and legal morality.

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British -- Malta -- History -- 19th century. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, -- 1772-1834 -- Travel -- Malta. --- Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography. --- English poetry -- Italian influences. --- Malta -- Intellectual life -- 1789-1900. --- Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography. --- Poets, English -- Homes and haunts -- Malta. --- Italian influences. --- Coleridge, S. T. --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil, --- Кольридж, Самуил, --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil Teĭlor, --- Кольридж, Самуил Тейлор, --- Kūlīridzh, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- קולרידג׳, סמיואל טיילור --- Kūlīridj, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- كولردج، صمويل تيلور, --- קאָלרידש, ס. ט., --- Republic of Malta --- Repubblika taʼ Malta --- State of Malta --- Malte --- Maltese Islands --- مالطة --- Mālṭah --- Мальта --- Рэспубліка Мальта --- Rėspublika Malʹta --- Republika Malta --- Малта --- Република Малта --- República de Malta --- Maltská republika --- Gweriniaeth Malta --- Republik Malta --- Malta Vabariik --- Μάλτα --- Δημοκρατία της Μάλτας --- Dēmokratia tēs Maltas --- Government of Malta --- Gvern ta̕ Malta --- マルタ --- Maruta --- Melita --- Poets, English --- British --- Critics --- English poetry --- English poets --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- History --- Homes and haunts --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Travel --- Malta --- Intellectual life --- romanticism --- legal history --- romantic literature --- nineteenth century --- colonial government --- political history --- samuel taylor coleridge --- colonialism --- malta --- british imperial history --- maltese history --- Avvisi --- Royal commission --- British imperial history --- Colonial government --- Colonialism --- Legal history --- Maltese history --- Political history --- Romantic literature --- Romanticism --- Nineteenth century

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