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Alastor Volume
Author_Sally West
Bloom's Theory
Bloom’s Theory
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Coleridge's Poem
Coleridge's Transition
Coleridge's Work
coleridges
Coleridge’s Poem
Coleridge’s Work
Dead Men
Devil's Walk
Devil’s Walk
Dew Drop
Elizabeth Hitchener
Eolian Harp
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Everlasting Universe
Greta Hall
intertextuality in verse
Lime Tree Bower
literary influence studies
Opening Verse Paragraph
Perpetual Orphic Song
poem
poetic form evolution
political transformation literature
prometheus
Prometheus Unbound
Prometheus Unbound Volume
Romantic period scholarship
Romantic poetry analysis
second-generation Romantic poets influence
Shelley's Portrait
Shelley’s Portrait
Sibylline Leaves
Southey's Library
Southey’s Library
Statesman's Manual
Statesman’s Manual
unbound
Unremitting Interchange
Verse Paragraph
Water Boatman
Water Fall
Product details
- ISBN 9780754660125
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sally West's timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge's influence on Shelley's poetic development. Beginning with a discussion of Shelley's views on Coleridge as a man and as a poet, West argues that there is a direct correlation between Shelley's desire for political and social transformation and the way in which he appropriates the language, imagery, and forms of Coleridge, often transforming their original meaning through subtle readjustments of context and emphasis. While she situates her work in relation to recent concepts of literary influence, West is focused less on the psychology of the poets than on the poetry itself. She explores how elements such as the development of imagery and the choice of poetic form, often learnt from earlier poets, are intimately related to poetic purpose. Thus on one level, her book explores how the second-generation Romantic poets reacted to the beliefs and ideals of the first, while on another it addresses the larger question of how poets become poets, by returning the work of one writer to the literary context from which it developed. Her book is essential reading for specialists in the Romantic period and for scholars interested in theories of poetic influence.
Sally West is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Chester, UK.
