Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The poetical works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ed. w. a biographical introd. by James Dykes Campbell
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The Alcove at the Pratt Institute Free Library and the Books to be Found There
Author: Pratt Institute. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
The Monthly Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With Life of the Author
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Book News
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist (1749-1806)
Author: Florence May Anna HilbishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Opium and the Romantic Imagination
Author: Alethea HayterPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571306012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered. In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.
