The Creative Mind in Coleridge's Poetry

by Kathleen M. Wheeler

Five of Coleridge's major poems are given fresh scrutiny in this arresting study. One of its unusual features is the attention given the Preface to "Kubla Khan," the Gloss to The Ancient Mariner , and other prose accompaniments to the poems usually dismissed as extraneous. Devices such as these, the author argues, are strategically employed by Coleridge in an effort to engage the reader in a fully imaginative response. Kathleen Wheeler elucidates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674175735
• ISBN13: 9780674175730
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"