Coleridge and Wordsworth : the poetry of growth
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Coleridge and Wordsworth : the poetry of growth
Cambridge University Press, 1970
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Bibliography: p. 205-209
Includes index
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Originally published in 1980, this is a study of the 'romanticism' of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Their concern with creativity, and the conditions that helped or hindered their own artistic development, produced a new concept of mental growth - a 'modern' view of the mind as organic, active, and unifying. In particular, we see how their aesthetics evolved from a personal and intuitional need to reaffirm 'value' in their own lives. Their discovery of the fundamental ambiguity of such intuition is discussed in relation to some ideas of Empson, Gombrich, and Ehrenzweig. As well as an essay in criticism, this is a contribution to the history of ideas, drawing together points in the background of philosophical and psychological theory from Hartley and Wesley to John Stuart Mill. Since many of our ideas about imagination, symbolism, and creativity are ultimately derived from Coleridge and Wordsworth, this is a book for students of romantic and modern literature.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the rainbow and the imagination
- 1. 'An image with a glory round its head'
- 2. Mechanism versus organism
- 3. Imagination: the active mind
- 4. Unity and creativity
- 5. Memory and perception
- 6. Wordsworth and Coleridge: a romanticism
- 7. Symbol and growth
- Concise bibliography
- Index.
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