Coleridge and Shelley: Textual Engagement / Edition 1

by Sally West

Overview

Sally West's timely study explores Coleridge's influence on Shelley's poetic development, while engaging with the larger subject of literary influence. West argues that there is a direct correlation between Shelley's desire for political and social transformation and his appropriation, and transformation, of Coleridge language, imagery, and forms. Coleridge's influence on Shelley offers an entree into West's subtle investigation of how poets become poets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754660125
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/28/2007
Series:	The Nineteenth Century Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sally West is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Chester, UK.

Table of Contents

General Editors’ Preface, Sally West; Abbreviations, Sally West; Studying a Masterpiece of Nature: Shelley, Coleridge and the Nature of Influence, Sally West; Chapter 1 Cultivating the Topos: Early Engagements, Sally West; Chapter 2 ‘Beside thee like thy shadow’: The presence of Coleridge in Shelley’s Alastor Volume, Sally West; Chapter 3 ‘An unremitting interchange’: The Voices of Mont Blanc, Sally West; Chapter 4 Perpetual Orphic Song: The ‘vitally metaphorical’ in ‘This Lime-Tree Bower’ and ‘To a Sky-Lark’, Sally West; Chapter 5 ‘To him my tale I teach’: The Legacy of Coleridge’s Mariner in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound Volume, Sally West; Chapter 6 Afterword, Sally West;

Editorial Reviews

'Richly detailed in its scholarship and subtle in reading, West's study attests to the strong engagement Shelley had with Coleridge from his search for an intellectual father in 1810-11 through his own maturity as a master poet. This study is strongly persuasive that, after Godwin, Coleridge was the contemporary to whom Shelley most often turned for imaginative inspiration and intellectual debate.' Stuart Curran, The University of Pennsylvania, USA ’... an important account of the largely unexamined influence of Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Shelley’s understanding of poetic form.’ Keats-Shelley Journal

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