Critics Flashcards
(11 cards)
George Whalley (3)
Coleridge was a confirmed symbolist
Life-in-death meant to Coleridge a mixture of remorse and loneliness
Certainly the mariner learned a sharp lesson
Jones and Tydeman (2)
no one can now deny the serious moral nature of these poems (TAM, KK, Cristabel)
it is no longer possible to treat his work dismissely or other than with serios respect
Richard Holmes (2)
like all the romantics, Coleridge was interested in exploring such extreme states of mind
how strange, how captivating, how haunted Coleridge’s actual poems are
A.M.Buchan
Wordsworth looked on Coleridge’s contributions as little more than a sop to popular nature and a lure to find readers for his own more valuable verses
Mark L Reed
talks of ‘the unique quality and value of the intellect’ of Coleridge. He also refers to Lyrical Ballads as ‘the small volume that was to have such effect on our literary history’
Lord Byron
a wild and singularly beautiful and original poem (Christabel)
Richard Gravil
some have argued that Christabel consciously deconstructs the gender bias of Gothic and is centred on the cruel domination and marginalisation of women by patriarchy
Humphrey House (2)
the poem manages to escape history and yet retains tradition (Christabel)
Kubla Khan is a poem about the act of poetic creation
Kahleen Wheeler
if ever a poem reflected the concerns and interests of its age ‘Kubla Khan’ is that poem
George G. Watson
the overwhelmingly important fact about the ‘pleasure dome’ of the poem, with its surrounding park, is its artificiality.
He also talks of ‘Kublas arrogance’
Edward E Bostetter
“the most disturbing characteristic of this universe is the caprice that lies at the heart of it; the precise punishment of the mariner and his shipmate depends upon chance. The spectre crew of Death and Life-in-Death gamble for them”
