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Coleridge's Conversation Poems: Thinking the Thinker

Coleridge's Conversation Poems: Thinking the Thinker Frederick Burwick Coleridge’s Conversation Poems: Thinking the Thinker Although Coleridge himself identified only ‘Reflections on having left a Place of ‘The Nightingale’ as ‘A Conversation Poem’, Retirement’, but also lurking in ‘Frost at the assumption that it possessed certain generic Midnight’ and some of the other or thematic characteristics in common with ‘Conversations.’ Many critics have observed other poems has prompted critics for the past strong dialectical tensions: aesthetics vs. ethics, eighty years to group them together. ‘The idealism vs. materialism, isolation vs. Æolian Harp’, ‘Reflections on having left a engagement, idleness vs. industry, loss vs. Place of Retirement’, ‘This Lime-Tree Bower’, desire, indolence vs. creativity. My own ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘The Nightingale’, reading of the ‘Conversation Poems’ is also ‘Dejection: An Ode’, ‘To William Wordsworth’ concerned with dialectical tensions, those were the seven poems said to share basic derived from Coleridge’s effort to reconcile features. The first to set forth these shared subject and object, thinker and thing perceived. characteristics, George Harper emphasised a In his distinction between the Primary and structure which began in a pleasant sanctuary, the Secondary Imagination, Coleridge launched a metaphorical flight of fancy, then addressed the mental act necessary to returned with altered http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

Coleridge's Conversation Poems: Thinking the Thinker

Burwick, Frederick
Romanticism , Volume 14 (2): 15 – Jul 1, 2008
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Frederick Burwick Coleridge’s Conversation Poems: Thinking the Thinker Although Coleridge himself identified only ‘Reflections on having left a Place of ‘The Nightingale’ as ‘A Conversation Poem’, Retirement’, but also lurking in ‘Frost at the assumption that it possessed certain generic Midnight’ and some of the other or thematic characteristics in common with ‘Conversations.’ Many critics have observed other poems has prompted critics for the past strong dialectical tensions: aesthetics vs. ethics, eighty years to group them together. ‘The idealism vs. materialism, isolation vs. Æolian Harp’, ‘Reflections on having left a engagement, idleness vs. industry, loss vs. Place of Retirement’, ‘This Lime-Tree Bower’, desire, indolence vs. creativity. My own ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘The Nightingale’, reading of the ‘Conversation Poems’ is also ‘Dejection: An Ode’, ‘To William Wordsworth’ concerned with dialectical tensions, those were the seven poems said to share basic derived from Coleridge’s effort to reconcile features. The first to set forth these shared subject and object, thinker and thing perceived. characteristics, George Harper emphasised a In his distinction between the Primary and structure which began in a pleasant sanctuary, the Secondary Imagination, Coleridge launched a metaphorical flight of fancy, then addressed the mental act necessary to returned with altered

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Published: Jul 1, 2008

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