Down to the Sunless Sea: A Troubled Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Mediterranean - Couverture souple

Edwards, Andrew; Edwards, Suzanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1789761255 ISBN 13 : 9781789761252

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Down to the Sunless Sea explores the time Coleridge spent in Gibraltar, Malta, Sicily and mainland Italy, where he had planned to recover his health, escape the clutches of opium and gain inspiration from the landscape; however, the reality would prove very different. After his short sojourn in Gibraltar, Coleridge arrived in Malta, where he became acquainted with the British Governor, Alexander Ball. He settled into Maltese life, initially taking on the role of acting Under-Secretary. Travelling to Sicily, Coleridge embraced the island's landscapes but was shaken to find the opium poppy was an important local crop. The Mediterranean would not prove the solution to his addiction. He visited the Consul, G. F. Leckie, and was invited to stay with him at a house on the site of Timoleon's Greek villa. The poet visited the antiquities of Syracuse and at the opera house encountered the soprano, Anna-Cecilia Bertozzi, nearly succumbing to her charms. Back in Malta, he was offered rooms in the Treasury building (now the Casino Maltese) and took up the post of Public Secretary. Legal pronouncements in Italian bear Coleridge's signature. Leaving behind these matters of state, he drifted through the Italian peninsula, engaging with a coterie of artistic ex-pats when in Rome. His listless, half-hearted, and financially embarrassed attempts at the Grand Tour included a narrow escape from French troops. Coleridge's Mediterranean sojourn impacted on his life and writing, not to mention his health, which saw a marked decline, leading to his final years in Highgate under the roof of a friendly doctor. Down to the Sunless Sea is a literary reflection on the fact that the sun-filled Mediterranean was not the tonic he had first imagined.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Edwards is the coauthor of several books, including Ghosts of the Belle Époque: The History of the Grand Hôtel et des Palmes, Palermo and His Master's Reflection: Travels with John Polidori, Lord Byron's Doctor and Author of the Vampyre.<br /><br />Suzanne Edwards is the coauthor of several books, including Ghosts of the Belle Époque: The History of the Grand Hôtel et des Palmes, Palermo and His Master's Reflection: Travels with John Polidori, Lord Byron's Doctor and Author of the Vampyre.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789761255
• ISBN 13: 9781789761252
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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