Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Language of Allusion - Couverture souple

Newlyn, Lucy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199242593 ISBN 13 : 9780199242597

Editeur : Oxford University Press UK, 2001

Synopsis

In this study of two creative minds, Lucy Newlyn offers a new version of the Coleridge-Wordsworth interaction during its most crucial years: 1797-1807. It is only on the surface, she argues, that each poet appears the other's ideal audience. Below the surface, radical differences led to misunderstanding. The key to Newlyn's new interpretation is in the poets' private language, for it is in echoes and allusions that their tacit opposition can be found. - ;In this study of two creative minds, Lucy Newlyn offers a new version of the Coleridge-Wordsworth interaction during its most crucial years: 1797-1807. Rejecting all those accounts (including the poets' own) which have sought to construe difference as compatibility, Newlyn argues that it is only on the surface that each poet appears the other's ideal audience. Below the surface, there were radical differences, of a theoretical and imaginative kind, which led to misunderstanding. It is the central argument of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Language of Allusion that such 'misunderstanding' was creative and, for both poets, a means of self-definition. The key to this interpretation is in the poets' private language: they were not only 'men speaking to men', but poets speaking to poets, and it is in their use of literary allusion that their tacit opposition emerges. Indeed, by examining the range of strategies open to any writer using private allusion, Newlyn's study reveals this mode to be potentially the most aggressive of literary forms. -

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lucy Newlyn is Lecturer in English, St Edmunds Hall, Oxford and author of Reading, Writing, and Romanticism and Paradise Losty and the Romantic Reader.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press UK
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199242593
• ISBN 13: 9780199242597
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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