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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006.
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In Romantic Complexity, Jack Stillinger examines three of the most admired poets of English Romanticism--Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth--with a focus on the complexity that results from the multiple authorship, the multiple textual representation, and the multiple reading and interpretation of their best works.
Specific topics include the joint authorship of Wordsworth and Coleridge in the Lyrical Ballads, an experiment of 1798 that established the most essential characteristics of modern poetry; Coleridge's creation of eighteen or more different versions of The Ancient Mariner and how this textual multiplicity affects interpretation; the historical collaboration between Keats and his readers to produce fifty-nine separate but entirely legitimate readings of The Eve of St. Agnes; and a number of practical and theoretical matters bearing on the relationships among these writers and their influences on one another.
Stillinger shows his deep understanding of the poets' lives, works, and the history of their reception, in chapters rich with intriguing questions and answers sure to engage students and teachers of the world's greatest poetry.
Contents
Preface vii
Part 1: Keats Essays
1. What Keats Is About 3
2. Keats and Wordsworth 20
3. Keats and Coleridge 41
4. Reading Keats's Plots 62
5. Keats's Extempore Effusions and the Question of Intentionality 77
6. Multiple Readers, Multiple Texts, Multiple Keats 89
7. The "Story" of Keats 112
Part 2: Wordsworth and Coleridge
8. Textual Primitivism and the Editing of Wordsworth 129
9. Pictorialism and Matter-of-Factness in Coleridge's Poems of Somerset 152
10. The Multiple Versions of Coleridge's Poems: How Many Mariners Did Coleridge Write? 166
11. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Shaggy Dog: The Novelty of Lyrical Ballads (1798) 183
Part 3: Romantics and the Classroom
12. Fifty-nine Ways of Reading Ode on a Grecian Urn 201
13. Refurbish or Perish 208
14. Glossing the Romantics: Texts for Students 215
15. The Romantics and Sputnik 222
Abbreviations 225
Notes 227
References 243
Credits 255
Index 257