Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge [electronic resource] : The Poetics of Relationship /
Healey, N.author.
This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurate understanding of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Authorâ€?s Note""; ""Introduction: Dorothy Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge and the Poetics of Relationship""; ""1 'Fragments from the universal': Hartley Coleridge's Poetics of Relationship""; ""Solitude, community and the relational selfhood""; ""Hartley's nature poetry""; ""Sensory receptivity, relationship and identity""; ""'Sweet baby, little as thou art, / Thou art a human whole'""; ""2 The Coleridge Family: Influence, Identity and Representation""; ""'A living spectre of my Father dead'""
""Getting away from the Coleridge name""""Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge and sibling rivalry""; ""3 'Who is the Poet?': Hartley Coleridge, William Wordsworth and the 'The Use of a Poet'""; ""Poetic immortality, mortality and 'To H. C., Six Years Old'""; ""4 Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals: Writing the Self, Writing Relationship""; ""'Fraternal affection': 'the building up of my being, the light of my path'""; ""Solitude-in-community in Dorothy's Journals""; ""Dorothy's aesthetics of relationship""; ""5 Sibling Conversations: The Wordsworthian Construction of Authorship""
""The problems of literary industry and domestic labour in Dove Cottage""""The role of Dorothy and the sibling in 'Tintern Abbey'""; ""Sibling (dis)harmony in William's poems, 1798â€?1805""; ""'She gave me eyes, she gave me ears'""; ""6 'My hidden life': Dorothy, William and Poetic Identity""; ""'But why should I inscribe my name / No poet I'""; ""'I reverenced the Poet's skill'""; ""'the lost fragments shall remain, / To fertilize some other ground'""; ""'The common life which is the real life': Family Authorship and Identity""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurate understanding of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers.
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855
Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sociology.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Gender Studies.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.