Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0198712014 ISBN 13: 9780198712015

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2002

Riassunto

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language, and co-author, with Wordsworth, of Lyrical Ballads; one of England's greatest critics and theorists of literature and imagination; as well as autobiographer, nature-writer, philosopher, theologian, psychologist, and talker. Throughout his life, he confided his thoughts and emotions to his Notebooks, where we can still see his speculations and observations taking shape. This edition presents a selection from this unique work, newly presented, with notes and commentary, for the student as well as the general reader.

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Seamus Perry's excellent selection from Coleridge's Notebooks may be heartily recommended to specialists and generalists alike. (The Wordsworth Circle)

Perry says that he has 'tried to keep a thread of biographical entries running through the book, to convey some sense of the shape of Coleridge's life'; and he has succeeded admirably. (The Use of English)

Perry's commentary is a model of helpful explanation, enabling the reader to enjoy and participate in the workings of Coleridge's mind. (The Use of English)

... reader-friendly and well-edited ... Seamus Perry's book is especially welcome, making easily accessible (and at a very reasonable price) material only otherwise available in Kathleen Coburn's magisterial, massive (and expensive) multi-volume edition of the Notebooks. (The Use of English)

Seamus Perry's brilliantly edited selection, which must now be an indispensable item on any Coleridge bibliography (Stephen Romer, Guardian Review ,)

a priceless resource for student and general reader alike (Stephen Romer, Guardian Review ,)

Every single page of this precious book yields up riches. No one interested in human thought and feeling should be without it. (Stephen Romer, Guardian Review)

This delightfully edited selection of the journals of Samuel Taylor Coleridge... reintroduces the general reader to one of the most fascinating characters in literary history... Coleridge's Notebooks belong with St. Augustine's Confessions as evidence of the seriousness with which one may take the Socratic command, 'know thyself'... Dipped into or read through (the commentary is always helpful and at times eloquent; with commentary, these very nearly comprise an autobiography), Coleridge's Notebooks brings us as close as can be to the great Romantic, and at times perhaps uncomfortably close to our unacknowledged selves. (The Providence Journal, End of Year round up, selected by Ann Wrote)

these impassioned little jottings and snippets reveal the philosopher in the poet more clearly than any of his more ponderous works, and they are lovely to dip into (Daily Telegraph)

A marvellously judged and varied selection. (P J Kavanagh, The Spectator)

L'autore

Seamus Perry is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author ofColeridge and the Uses of Division (OUP 1999), Coleridge: Interviews and Recollections (Palgrave 2000), and, with Nicola Trott, is editor of1800: The New Lyrical Ballads (Palgrave 2001).

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0198712014
• ISBN 13: 9780198712015
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 290
• Redattore: Perry Seamus