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This is the first book of its kind to consider at length Coleridge's relationship to his near contemporary, Friedrich Schiller. Contrary to received opinion, the author shows that Schiller's notion of 'aesthetic education' was indeed valuable to Coleridge at an early stage in his career and that it helped to shape much of his work - from his theory of imagination and his notion of the clerisy to his views on women and his account of historical change. Combining close readings with historical research, this book challenges readers to rethink the radical potential of idealist aesthetics. Review 'Kooy's book offers a fine, detailed analysis of the coherence between the aesthetic theories of Schiller and Coleridge. His treatment incorporates related scholarship meticulously and persuasively...[a] thorough and well-documented study which should encourage scholars to reconsider the relationship between Schiller and Coleridge.' - Janet Land, The Coleridge Bulletin '...an elegantly and clearly written elaboration not only on the literary-historical influences that Schiller's work exerted on Coleridge, but also with a theoretical analysis of the similarities of the notion of Bildung in bot

Author

Michael John Kooy

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230596788

Subjects

History, Poetry, Literary Criticism