Coleridge's Political Poetics

Radicalism and Whig Verse 1794 - 1802
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-41876-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 283 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. It argues that, during the 1790s, Coleridge was able to articulate radical ideas under the cover of widely accepted principles through his references to this poetry. He positioned his poetry within a mainstream discourse, even as he favoured radical social change. Jacob Lloyd argues that the poets Mark Akenside, William Lisle Bowles, and William Cowper each provided Coleridge with a kind of Whig poetics to which he responded. When these references are understood, much of Coleridge’s work which seems purely personal or imaginative gains a political dimension. In addition, Lloyd reassess Coleridge’s relationship with Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, to provide an original, political reading of ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’. This book revises our understanding of the political and poetic development of a major poet and, in doing so, provides a new model for the origins of British Romanticism more broadly

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lloyd, Jacob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Coleridge and Whig Politics, 1794–1796.- 3 Whig Poetics and Akenside.- 4 Coleridge, Enthusiasm, and Bowles.-5 Coleridge’s Poetry of 1796 and 1797.-6 The Politics of Ancient Ballads: ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’ and Christabel.-7 Retirement Politics in the Fears in Solitude Quarto.-8 ‘Dejection. An Ode’ and the Renunciation of Political Poetics.-9 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob Lloyd was awarded his doctorate in 2019 by the University of Oxford, UK. His research has appeared in several journals, including Notes & Queries, Romanticism, and The Wordsworth Circle, and he wrote a chapter for The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. He has taught at Balliol College, Oxford and at Stanford University in Oxford.