具体描述
Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic. His writings are wide-ranging in form and content, and vast in number. Norton's long-awaited edition is the most comprehensive and user-friendly student edition available. Supporting apparatus includes detailed headnotes, footnotes (both Coleridge's and the editors'), biographical register, glossary, and an index of poems and first lines. "Criticism" includes twenty assessments of Coleridge's poetry and prose by British and American authors. About the series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
作者简介
目录信息
ABBREVIATIONS
The Text of the Coleridge’s Poetry and Prose
THE POETRY
From Poems on Various Subjects (1796)
Preface
Monody on the Death of Chatterton
To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution
Effusions
Effusion I
Effusion II
Effusion III
Effusion IV
Effusion V
Effusion VI
Effusion XX. To the Author of “Robbers”
Effusion XXII. To a Friend together with an Unfinished Poem
Effusion XXXV. Composed August 20th, 1795 at Clevedon, Somersetshire
Religious Musings
Ode on the Departing Year (1796)
To Thomas Poole of Stowey
Ode on the Departing Year
From Poems (1797)
Dedication. To the Reverend George Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary, Devon
From Preface. To the Second Edition
Introduction of the Sonnets
Sonnet IV
Sonnet IX
Sonnet X
Reflections
From Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in Seven Parts
Argument
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)
The Foster-Mother’s Tale, A Dramatic Fragment
The Nightingale: A Conversational Poem, Written in April, 1798
The Dungeon
Love
Fears in Solitude (1798)
Fears in Solitude
France. An Ode
Frost at Midnight
From The Morning Post and The Annual Anthology (1800)
The Visions of the Maid of Orleans
Recantation, Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox
Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest
To a Friend
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, A Poem
Sonnet XII
Fire, Famine & Slaughter. A War Eclogue
Dejection: An Ode (1802)
A Letter to -------------- [Sara Hutchinson]
Dejection: An Ode
Christabel, Kubla Khan, and The Pains of Sleep (1816)
Christabel
Preface
Christabel
Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream
Of the Fragment of Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan
The Pains of Sleep
Sibylline Leaves (1817)
Preface
Love-Poems
The Picture, or The Lover’s Resolution
The Visionary Hope
Recollections of Love
Meditative Poems in Blank Verse
Hymn Before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
To a Gentleman
Poetical Works (1828, 1829, 1834)
Poetical Works (1828). Prose in Rhyme: or Epigrams, Moralities, and Things, Without a Name
Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse
Work Without Hope
A Day Dream
Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius
Constancy to an Ideal Object
Prefactory Note to the Wanderings of Cain
Poetrical Works (1829)
The Garden of Boccaccio
From Poetical Works (1834). Miscellaneous Poems
Phantom
Youth and Age
Love’s Apparition and Evanishment
A Character
—E cœlo descendit . . . .—Juvenal
Epitaph
Uncollected Poetry
[Apologia pro vita sua]
The Day Dream
[Metrical Experiments, 1805]
A Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback
[Notebook Fragment, 1806]
[Notebook Fragment, 1807]
[Notebook Fragment, 1810]
[Notebook Fragment, 1811]
THE PROSE
From A Moral and Political Lecture, Delivered at Bristol (1795)
Conciones ad Populum. Or Addresses to the People (1795)
From On the Present War
Lectures on Revealed Religion (1795)
From Lecture 2
From Lecture 5
From Lecture 6
From The Plot Discovered; or An Address to the People, against Ministerial Treason (1795)
The Watchman (1796)
Prospectus
Modern Patriotism
On the Slave Trade
Once a Jacobin always a Jacobin
From The Lectures on Literature (1811-12, 1818)
[On Romeo and Juliet]
[On Ancient and Modern Drama and The Tempest]
[On Hamlet]
[On Dramatic Illusion]
From Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism (1814)
From Essay 2
From Essay 3
From Lay Sermons (1816-17)
From The Statesman’s Manual; or The Bible the Best Guide to Political Skill and Foresight
From Appendix C of The Statesman’s Manual
From A Lay Sermon (“Blessed are ye that sow beside all Waters!”)
Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches or My Literary Life and Opinions (1817)
From Volume 1
From Volume 2
From The Friend (1818)
[Reason and Understanding]
From The Essays on the Principles of Method
From Aids to Reflection (1825)
From Preface
From [Moral and Religious Aphorisms]
From [Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion]
From On the Constitution of Church and State
Miscellaneous Prose
Androgynous Minds
The Bible
Death
Dreams and Sleep
Education
Evil
Feelings
The French Revolution
John Keats
Language
Life
Love, Lust, and Friendship
Madness
Nature
Opium
Pantheism
Parliamentary Reform
Philosophy
Platonists and Aristotelians
Poetry
Prayer
Religion
Self-Analysis
Symbol
Women
Wordsworth
From The Letters (1796-1826)
To John Thelwell (November 19, 1796)
To Thomas Poole (February 6, 1797)
To Thomas Poole (March 1797)
To Joseph Cottle (April 1797)
To Thomas Poole (October 9, 1797)
To Thomas Poole (October 16, 1797)
To Thomas Poole (February 19, 1798)
To George Coleridge (c. March 10, 1798)
To Thomas Poole (March 16, 1801)
To Thomas Poole (March 23, 1801)
To William Sotheby (September 10, 1802)
To Sara Coleridge (November 23, 1802)
To Thomas Wedgwood (September 16, 1803)
To Thomas Poole (October 14, 1803)
To J. J. Morgan (May 14, 1814)
To J. J. Morgan (May 15, 1814)
To Thomas Allsop (March 30, 1820)
Criticism
NINETEENTH CENTURY: BRITAIN
William Wordsworth * From The Prelude
Charles Lamb * From Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years
From Letters
From [The Album of a London Bookseller]
William Hazlitt * From Lectures on the English Poets:
From Mr. Coleridge
Anne Jackson Matthews * From The Life and Correspondence of Charles Matthews the Elder, Comedian
Thomas De Quincey * From Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thomas Carlyle * From The Life of John Sterling
Harriet Martineau * From Autobiography
John Stuart Mill * From Coleridge
NINETEENTH CENTURY: UNITED STATES
Ralph Waldo Emerson * From The Letters
From Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks
From First Visit to England
Edgar Allan Poe * From Letter to B---------
From [Review of Letters, Conversations, and Recollections]
Margaret Fuller * From Art, Literature, and the Drama
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Robert Penn Warren * A Poem of Pur Imagination: An Experiment in Reading
M. H. Abrams * Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric
Frances Ferguson * Coleridge and the Deluded Reader: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Karen Swann * “Christabel”: The Wandering Mother and the Enigma of Form
Nicholas Roe * Introduction: Voices from the Common Grave of Liberty
Peter Hoheisel * Coleridge on Shakespeare: Method Amid the Rhetoric
Jerome McGann * The Biographia Literaria and the Contentions of English Romanticism
Thomas McFarland * Coleridge’s Theory of the Imagination
Ben Knights * The Idea of the Clerisy: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER
GLOSSARY
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: A CHRONOLOGY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF POEMS AND FIRST LINES
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用户评价
坦白讲,我对浪漫主义时期的英国文学一直保持着一种敬畏又疏离的态度,觉得那些情感过于奔放,与我平时的阅读习惯不太相符。然而,这本《Coleridge's Poetry and Prose》成功地用一种近乎解剖学的精确性,将科勒律治那颗跳动不安的心脏展示了出来。我最欣赏的部分,是那些关于“古代水手”的叙事诗篇中,对罪与罚的描绘。那种跨越物种的、对生命的敬畏,在那个时代背景下显得尤为大胆和前卫。当我读到水手被迫讲述自己恐怖经历时的那种宿命感,我几乎能感受到他的喉咙是如何干涩的。这本书没有回避他晚年生活的混乱与痛苦,而是将这些“负面”的材料也纳入到整体的艺术成就中去考量,这让人物形象变得立体而饱满,不再是教科书上那个扁平化的天才形象。这种全景式的展示,使得阅读体验更像是在追踪一位复杂人物的一生,而不是简单地欣赏几首优美的诗作。
我必须承认,我并不是一个能够轻易被“唯美主义”打动的读者,我更偏爱那种结构严谨、逻辑清晰的论述。因此,科勒律治的许多诗作对我来说,起初是“美则美矣,但不知所云”。然而,这本书中对散文部分的收录,特别是他对戏剧批评和德语哲学翻译的片段,提供了一个绝佳的“解码器”。通过这些清晰的理性思考,我得以回过头去,重新审视那些充满幻象的诗歌,发现其背后隐藏着的严密构架。它们不再是纯粹的情感宣泄,而是一种精心设计的、旨在颠覆传统审美观念的智力实验。这本书成功地平衡了科勒律治作为“诗人”的感性光芒与“思想家”的理性锋芒,使得读者可以从两个截然不同的角度去理解他的全部创作意图。这是一种非常成熟和全面的呈现方式,让我彻底改变了以往对他“才华横溢但缺乏定性”的偏见。
这本《Coleridge's Poetry and Prose》的选集简直是一场精神的漫游,尤其是在我沉浸于那些关于自然、想象力与超验的篇章时,那种感觉无与伦比。书中对“Kubla Khan”的呈现,不仅仅是文字的堆砌,更像是直接把我拉进了那个异域的、充满神秘色彩的梦境之中。我尤其欣赏编者在排版上对诗歌意象的处理,那些留白和分行,让原本就流动性极强的韵律感得到了视觉上的加强。阅读起来,我仿佛能听到莱姆河畔的风声,感受到那种介于清醒与恍惚之间的意识状态。散文部分,特别是那些关于美学和哲学的论述,虽然初读时略显晦涩,但细细品味后,其对浪漫主义核心精神的阐释却是极为深刻的,它不仅仅是在记录,更是在构建一种看待世界的全新视角。这种对人类心灵深处欲望与恐惧的探索,使得这部作品超越了单纯的文学欣赏,上升到了哲学思辨的高度。我对那些探讨“Primary and Secondary Imagination”的段落印象深刻,它们为理解后世的艺术创作提供了坚实的基础。每次合上书卷,脑海中都会残留着一种挥之不去的、关于“崇高”的震撼感。
这本书的选材之广,让我感到非常惊喜,它不仅仅是把那些耳熟能详的杰作罗列出来,更挖掘了一些鲜为人知的、具有学术价值的评论文章和未完成的手稿片段。这对于一个长期关注浪漫主义思潮的读者来说,无疑是巨大的福音。我发现其中关于“自然哲学”的论述,与现代生态学的某些观点竟然有着惊人的共鸣,仿佛科勒律治在两百多年前就预见到了人与自然界之间关系的危机。那些关于梦境与潜意识的零散记录,尤其引人入胜,它们似乎预示了弗洛伊德心理学的一些方向,只是用一种更为诗意和象征化的语言表达了出来。编者在注释上的用心,也值得称赞,对于那些晦涩的中古英语词汇或典故,提供了清晰的解释,极大地降低了阅读门槛,使我能够更流畅地进入文本的深层含义,而不是被表面的词语绊倒。
我得说,这本书的装帧设计实在是太抓人了,拿在手里沉甸甸的,那种触感仿佛暗示着里面承载的知识重量。但这只是表象,真正让我上瘾的是它对科勒律治那些晦涩难懂的片段所做的细致梳理。比如他早期的一些讽刺性作品,在现代语境下读来,其尖锐度丝毫未减,甚至因为时间的沉淀,更显出一种历久弥新的批判力量。我发现自己反复咀嚼的,是那些关于友谊、背叛以及自我救赎的主题。这些主题在诗歌中以优美的比喻展现,而在书信和日记摘录中则显得异常真实和赤裸。我特别关注了那些关于他与华兹华斯关系演变的文字,那种知识分子之间既相互激发又相互疏离的复杂情愫,被描绘得入木三分。读罢此书,我感觉自己仿佛参与了一场长达数十年的智力对话,听着两位巨人如何试图用文字去捕捉一个正在快速变化的时代精神。这种对个体经验与宏大历史背景相结合的呈现方式,是许多单薄的文学选集所不具备的。
不可能真的从头读到尾,但完成了一篇以Coleridge为主角的推理小说,也算是功德圆满了吧。
不可能真的从头读到尾,但完成了一篇以Coleridge为主角的推理小说,也算是功德圆满了吧。
不可能真的从头读到尾,但完成了一篇以Coleridge为主角的推理小说,也算是功德圆满了吧。
不可能真的从头读到尾,但完成了一篇以Coleridge为主角的推理小说,也算是功德圆满了吧。
不可能真的从头读到尾,但完成了一篇以Coleridge为主角的推理小说,也算是功德圆满了吧。