Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper: The 'Morning Post' and the Road to 'Dejection' (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319319773)

This book examines how Coleridge staged his private woes in the public space of the newspaper. It looks at his publications in the Morning Post, which first published one of his most famous poems, Dejection. An Ode. It reveals how he found a socially sanctioned public outlet for poetic disappointments and personal frustrations which he could not possibly articulate in any other way. Featuring fresh, contextual readings of established major poems; original readings of epigrams, sentimental ballads, and translations; analyses of political and human-interest stories, this book reveals the remarkable extent to which Coleridge used the public medium of the newspaper to divulge his complex and ambivalent private emotions about his marriage, his relationship with the Wordsworths and the Hutchinsons, and the effect of these dynamics on his own poetry and poetics.

Author: Heidi Thomson
ISBN-10: 3319319779
ISBN-13: 9783319319773
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2016
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.05w x 0.80d