Coleridge and Wordsworth: The Poetry of Growth

by Stephen Prickett

Book Overview

Originally published in 1980, this is a study of the 'romanticism' of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Their concern with creativity, and the conditions that helped or hindered their own artistic development, produced a new concept of mental growth - a 'modern' view of the mind as organic, active, and unifying. In particular, we see how their aesthetics evolved from a personal and intuitional need to reaffirm 'value' in their own lives. Their discovery of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521298091
• ISBN13: 9780521298094
• Release Date: April 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"