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Coleridge's Play of Mind by John B Beer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Eminent Coleridgean scholar John Beer presents a series of biographical investigations exploring Coleridge's life, stage by stage, and reconsidering the intellectual quality of his thinking and poetry through an emphasis on the notion of 'play'. Beginning and ending with brief accounts of the poet's childhood and last years, the book's twelve chapters each take a passage of Coleridge's life and characterise the nature and function of an abiding playful element in his consciousness. In combination they form a detailed, full, and humane treatment of Coleridge's life, focusing on topics such as his interest in psychology, his poetry, his literary collaboration with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, his hopeless love for William's sister-in-law, his literary criticism, including a new approach to Shakespeare, and his work towards a refreshing of contemporary religious beliefs and practices.

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Author

John B Beer

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191576744

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Memoir, Literary Fiction