J. C. C. Mays

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length study to read the "Ancient Mariner" as "poetry," in Coleridge's own particular sense of the word. Coleridge's complicated relationship with the "Mariner" as an experimental poem lies in its origin as a joint project with Wordsworth. J. C. C. Mays traces the changes in the several versions published in Coleridge's lifetime and shows how Wordsworth's troubled reaction to the poem influenced its subsequent interpretation. This is also the first book to situate the "Mariner" in the context of the entirety of Coleridge's prose and verse, now available in the Bollingen Collected edition and Notebooks; that is, not only in relation to other poems like "The Ballad of the Dark Ladiè" and "Alice du Clós," but also to ideas in his literary criticism (especially Biographia Literaria), philosophy, and theology. Using a combination of close reading and broad historical considerations, reception theory, and book history, Mays surveys the poem's continuing lifein illustrated editions and educational textbooks; its passage through the vicissitudes of New Criticism and critical theory; and, in a final chapter, its surprising affinities with some experimental poems of the present time.

Produktdetails

• Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-60257-2
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781137602572
• ISBN-10: 1137602570
• Artikelnr.: 44769327

Autorenporträt

J. C. C. Mays is Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Taking Bearings, Setting a Course.- What Does the Poem Do?.- As a Poem of the Imagination.- Wordsworth as Collaborator and Contributor.- The Shadow Cast by Wordsworth.- Revision, Gloss, Choice.- A Reputation by Default.- Today and To Do.- Appendix 1: "Ancient Mariner "1798 Version.- Appendix 2: Reading "Alice du Clós", and for the Birds.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

Rezensionen

"All present and future readers of Coleridge's poetry will be indebted to Mays for having so thoroughly and incisively taken the measure of the language of Coleridge's poetry ... ." (Charles Mahoney, Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 58 (1), 2019)