Aids to Reflection, with a Preliminary Essay.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Marsh, James; Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Edité par Chauncey Goodrich, 1840

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Reissue of 1825 work first published in the United States in 1829, from the fourth London edition, with the author's last corrections. Spine faded, foxed throughout, owner blind stamp on first two pages. 1840 Hard Cover. 357 pp. 8vo. Purple cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders and decorations. After its publication in the U.S., this work was a force in the popularization of American Transcendentalism, largely due to contributor James Marsh, who energetically promoted it. Coleridge was, of course, best known for his poetry, most notably the oft-misquoted The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. His works The Friend and Essays on the Principles of Methods influenced John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others. The Friend first appeared originally as a serialized journal, and included contributions by William Wordsworth and John Wilson (who wrote under the name Christopher North). "Commentators always had difficulty in characterizing the special nature of Coleridge's achievement: indeed, his true legacy lay, perhaps, in the creativity he awakened in those he met. Lamb, Wordsworth, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Byron, and Keats, touched by him in turn, each manifested the effects in the quality of their writing. Thinkers such as these produced what came to be known as the broad-church movement, and in some cases the beginnings of Christian socialism. Across the Atlantic, in the same years, Coleridge's influence, while affecting writers such as Emerson and Poe, was most strongly felt in religious and theological fields, particularly in New England and Vermont." (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Aids to Reflection, with a Preliminary Essay.
• Éditeur: Chauncey Goodrich
• Date de parution: 1840
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: Reissue.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket