Private lives of the ancient mariner : Coleridge and his children

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Private lives of the ancient mariner : Coleridge and his children

Molly Lefebure

Lutterworth, 2013

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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A fascinating new study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner' illuminates the poet's deeply troubled personality and stormy personal life through a highly original study of his relationships. In her last published work the celebrated Coleridgean, Molly Lefebure, provides profound psychological insights into Coleridge through a meticulous study of his domestic life, drawing upon a vast and unique body of knowledge gained from a lifetime's study of the poet, and making skilful use of the letters, poems and biographies of the man himself and his family and friends. The author traces the roots of Coleridge's unarguably dysfunctional personality from his earliest childhood; his position as his mother's favoured child, the loss of this status with the death of his father, and removal to the 'Bluecoat' school in London. Coleridge's narcissistic depression, flamboyance, and cold-hearted, often cruel, rejection of his family and of loving attachments in general are examined in close detail. The author also explores Coleridge's careers in journalism and politics as well as poetry, in his early, heady 'jacobin' days, and later at the heart of the British wartime establishment at Malta. In both of these arenas Coleridge exerted his talents to brilliant effect, although they have often been overlooked in appraisals of his works. His virtual abandonment of his children and tragic disintegration under the influence of opium are included in the broad sweep of the book which also encompasses an examination of the lives of Coleridge's children, upon whom the manipulations of the father left their destructive mark. Molly Lefebure unravels the enigma that is Coleridge with consummate skill in a book which will bring huge enjoyment to any reader with an interest in the poet's life and times.

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Prologue - The Children of Genius Lose Their Fountain of Light I Funeral at Highgate II A time to lament III The chilled heart Part One - Resurrection IV Beware, Beware V Offensive disclosures VI Better not look this way First Landing Place - From Under the Tablecloth Part Two - Sam VII Little Sam VIII The Torrents of Spring IX Jesus man, including In pursuit of Tippoo Sahib, Francis Coleridge X Jesus man continued XI The pantisocrats XII A chilled heart and a democratic marriage Part Three - Taper in a Cottage Window XIII Sermons and sedition and a father's kiss XIV A seraph in clouts XV The cradle Second Landing Place - Crossroads Part Four - A Mystic Peregrination XVI A mystic peregrination - (I): Father as alchemical philosopher XVII A mystic peregrination - (II): Beyond the grasp of reason XVIII A mystic peregrination - (III) Father as mariner: The way ahead Part Five - Trailing Clouds of Glory XIX In which Papa goes to Germany and Berkeley goes to Heaven XX The Vale of Elysium XXI A Faery Voyager and a fine representative baby XXII Darkness at noon XXIII Sensibility and sense Part Six - Samuel Taylor Coleridge V Napoleon Bonaparte XXIV In pursuit of Tipoo Sahib - Samuel Taylor Coleridge XXV Our man in Malta XXVI Our man in Malta (Contd) XXVII Confrontations Part Seven - Confrontations XXVIII And further confrontations XXIX Ejuxria (Pg 306 - 316) XXX News from the Aunt Hill concluding with some intimations XXXI A case of unatural cruelty XXXII Further news from the Aunt Hill Part Eight - Locked Out Children XXXIII A month at Brighton! Portrait of an excluded daughter XXXIV A sunny stroll in Ambleside - Portrait of locked out sons Part Nine - Shipwreck of the Faery Voyager XXXV Shipwreck of the Faery Voyager

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