The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1801 : The Poetry of Relationship

Matlak, Richard E.

Palgrave Macmillan（1994/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780333620892
• DDC分類 821.709353

Full Description

Richard Matlak uses psychobiography to look at the writings of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth. He examines the intimate relationship between the three writers for clues to their poems, providing a major reinterpretation of their canonical works based on psychological and intertextual contexts. The themes of romance, incest, guilt, and familial breakdown and reunion are especially scrutinized in the work and lives of these prominent figures. In particular, he gives long overdue credit to Dorothy Wordsworth for her profound influence on her brother's major verse, and the effect their relationship had on the work of Coleridge, causing us to view all creative relationships in a new light.

Contents

Abbreviations - Introduction - PART 1: FAMILY BIOGRAPHY AND THE BORDERERS - That was the beginning of my love - Links of adamant - That woman was to have been my wife - Sunk into despair - Wheretofore this repetition - PART 2: THIS DIALOGUE OF ONE - Many recognitions dim and faint - The Burthen of the mystery - Let the moon/Shine on thee - The Language of the sense - Healing thoughts - PART 3: A WINTER'S TALE - All in each other - If Lucy should be dead! - Was it for this...? - Alas that cannot be - To what end...? - Coda: The Fir Grove