Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge

240 Pages·1999·14.27 MB·English

by  J. Douglas Kneale

Romantic Aversions
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Romantic Aversions
Aftermaths of Classicism
in Wordsworth and Coleridge
J. DOUGLAS KNEALE
McGill-Queen's University Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca
McGill-Queen's University Press 1999
ISBN 0-7735-1804-5
Legal Deposit first quater 1999
Bibliotheque nationale du qUEBEC
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
Published simultaneously in the European Union by
Liverpool University Press.
This book has been published with the help of a grant
from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of
Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
McGill-Queen's University Press acknowledges the
financial support of the Government of Canada through
the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for
its activities. We also acknowledge the support of the
Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing
program.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Kneale, John Douglas, 1955-
Romantic aversions: aftermaths of Classicism in
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Includes bibliographical references and index.
iSBN 07735-1804-5
ISBN 0-7735-1804-5 1. Wordsworth, Wi
interpretation. 2. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 •
Criticism and interpretation. I. Title.
PR595-C67K541998 82'.709 098-900860-6
Typeset in Palatino 10/12
by Caractera inc., Quebec City
for Helen and Anne
small but mighty prophets
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Turns of Phrase: Aversion, Effusion,
Expression 3
1 Apostrophe Reconsidered: Wordsworth's "There Was a
Boy" 11
2 "Between Poetry and Oratory": Coleridge's Romantic
Effusions 28
3 "Thou one dear Vale!": Wordsworth and the Sympathies
of Rhetoric 50
4 Coleridge's Emergent Occasion: "To the Autumnal
Moon" 71
5 Transport and Persuasion in Longinus and
Wordsworth 94
6 Wordsworth in the Isle of Man 104
7 Symptom and Scene in Freud and Wordsworth 115
8 Gentle Hearts and Hands: Reading Wordsworth after
Geoffrey Hartman 135
Notes 155
Works Cited 193
Index 213
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Abbreviations
BL Biogmphia Literaria. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Ed. James
Engell and W. Jackson Bate. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1983.
CL Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Ed. Earl Leslie
Griggs. 6 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1956-71.
CPW The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon,
1912.
Norton The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850. By William Wordsworth.
Prelude Ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, M.H. Abrams, and Stephen
Gill. New York: Norton, 1979. Unless otherwise noted,
references are to the 1850 version.
Prose The Prose Works of William Wordsworth. Ed. W.J.B. Owen
and Jane Worthington Smyser. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon,
1974.
PW The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Ed. Ernest de
Selincourt. Rev. Helen Darbishire. 5 vols. Oxford:
Clarendon, 1952-63.
SE The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of
Sigmund Freud. Trans, and ed. James Strachey. 24 vols.
London: Hogarth, 1953-76.