Organising Poetry
The Coleridge Circle, 1790-1798
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 June 2009
- ISBN 9780199296163
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 241x161x22 mm
- Weight 753 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Writing their early poetry during the 1790s, a decade of European revolution, Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends have always been thought of as 'the First-Generation Romantics'. This book challenges that concept by viewing them from an entirely new perspective as poets who were continuing an eighteenth-century 'organic' tradition.
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In this revisionary study of the poetry of Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends during the 'revolutionary decade' David Fairer questions the accepted literary history of the period and the critical vocabulary we use to discuss it. The book examines why, at a time of radical upheaval when continuities of all kinds (personal, political, social, and cultural) were being challenged, this group of poets explored themes of inheritance, retrospect, revisiting, and recovery. Organising Poetry charts their struggles to find meaning not through vision and symbol but from connection and dialogue. By placing these poets in the context of an eighteenth-century 'organic' tradition, Fairer moves the emphasis away from the language of idealist 'Romantic' theory towards an empirical stress on how identities are developed and sustained through time. Locke's concept of personal identity as a continued organisation 'partaking of one common life' offered not only a model for a reformed British constitution but a way of thinking about the self, art and friendship, which these poets found valuable. The key term, therefore, is not 'unity' but 'integrity'. In this context of a need to sustain and organise diversity and give it meaning, the book offers original readings of some well known poems of the 1790s, including Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' and 'The Ruined Cottage', and Coleridge's conversation poems 'The Eolian Harp', 'This Lime-Tree Bower', and 'Frost at Midnight'. Organising Poetry represents an important contribution to current critical debates about the nature of poetic creativity during this period and the need to recognise its more communal and collaborative aspects.
The whole volume bespeaks an erudition and an attention to detail that are simply awe-inspiring. This is a book not only for academics interested in the poetry of the 1790s, but for anyone curious about the persistence of earlier 18th-century concepts throughout that revolutionary decade.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: 'one common life'
I
Organicism: The Idealist Tradition
Organic Constitutions: Identity
Organic Constitutions: History
II
'Sweet native stream!': Approaching Tintern Abbey
Southey's Literary History: Poetry in Retrospect
Between Youth and Age: Coleridge's Monody on the Death of Chatterton, 1790-6
Putting his Poems Together: Coleridge's First Volume (1796)
Coleridge's Sonnets from Various Authors (1796): A Lost Conversation Poem?
Organising Friendship: Coleridge, Lamb, and Lloyd
A Matter of Emphasis: Coleridge and Thelwall, 1796-7
Returning to the Ruined Cottage
'Look homeward Angel now': Prospects and Fears in 1798
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
