Author: Alexander Meyrick Broadley
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Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The Romance of an Elderly Poet
Author: Alexander Meyrick Broadley
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The Romance of an Elderly Poet
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Opium and the Romantic Imagination
Author: Alethea Hayter
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571306012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571306012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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.
Poetry Review
Author: Stephen Phillips
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Tales 1812 and Selected Poems
Author: Crabbe
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521094207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This selection of Crabbe's work includes the entire Tales of 1812, two-thirds of The Parish Register and nearly half of The Borough, besides other poems.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521094207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This selection of Crabbe's work includes the entire Tales of 1812, two-thirds of The Parish Register and nearly half of The Borough, besides other poems.
Bulletin
Author: English Association, London
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Maximilian the Dreamer
Author: Christopher Hare
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Gaiety and George Grossmith
Author: Stanley Naylor
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Napoleon in Exile: St. Helena (1815-1821)
Author: Norwood Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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The Library of the Late William S. Lambert
Author: William S. Lambert
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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