Overview
- Reevaluates the position of Wordsworth in “Dejection: An Ode” and its political statement
- Clarifies Coleridge’s concepts of “imagination” and “dejection”
- Examines the second half of Coleridge’s career and his changing style
Part of the book series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters (19CMLL)
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Coleridge's Dejection Ode completes J.C.C. Mays’ analysis of Coleridge’s poetry, following Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner (Palgrave 2016) and Coleridge’s Experimental Poetics (Palgrave 2013). "Dejection: An Ode" stands alone in Coleridge's oeuvre: written at a time of personal crisis, it reaches far back and deeply into his thinking in an attempt to find a poematic solution to ideas and problems he had mulled over for a long time. Mays reveals how the poem also marks the opening of the second half of Coleridge's career as both poet and thinker. In three central chapters Mays examines the new style that evolved in the process of writing the Ode: the technical means of metrics, rhyme and grammar; language and allusion; and symbol and structure. He recounts the complex, sometimes controversial critical history of the Ode, and suggests an editorial solution to the problem created by the Letter to Sara Hutchinson; re-evaluates the position of Wordsworth in the poem apropos the political statement it makes; clarifies the distinction between the views on Imagination expressed and those contained in Biographia Literaria; and traces the links of the concept "dejection" as it underpins Coleridge's late poems.
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J.C.C. Mays is Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coleridge's Dejection Ode
Authors: J.C.C. Mays
Series Title: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04131-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04130-4Published: 05 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04131-1Published: 22 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2691-1256
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5218
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature