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With a novelist's insight and eye for detail A S Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, against the background of the great changes of their times - in society, politics, education and literature. As she charts their personal lives, traces thegrowth of their ideas and shows how these are reflected in their work, we are presented with vivid pictures, not only of Wordsworth and Coleridge, but of their families, friends and contempories - Southey, de Quincey, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron and Keats.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Byatt has very effectively shown how the aspects of the context in which Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote, influenced their creative art. Her chapter divisions are clear and informative. An excellent "read" and extremely useful text for students considering how the ways of thinking during this historical period affected the writers and their art.
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A Visionary Gleam into the Lives of Two Major Romantic Poets
23 Sep 2010
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I really like this book as a means to place the brilliant romantic poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge into perspective based upon their lives and times. Clearly, they struggled like others of the period, most notably Keats, to survive while creating their immortal works. The poetry of this glorious window while the landscape outside the big cities of England was still pure is so scintillating and inspiring even as industrialization gained traction there. Wordsworth hated London and adored walking through his beloved Lake District with his sister, Dorothy. What intrigues me most is the way they perceive their Arcadian reality. Wordsworth was pantheistic and inspired by what he saw in the landscape. Coleridge stumbled onto opium through DeQuincy to soothe various medical ailments and his visions assume the surreal shape of luminous, opium dreams, at times. Clearly, Wordsworth was the more gifted poet. They both labored under a romantic imagination seeking aesthetic beauty or the harmony between man and nature within a cultural lens in which Edmund Burke in "On the Sublime and Beautiful" seeks to give attributes to the "sublime": 1) obscurity 2) power 3) privations 4) vastness 5) infinity 6) succession 7) uniformity. They were also like others of their heyday concerned with the "picturesque" and were influenced by painters of the period, notably Turner. He informed the poets of the period who were fascinated by the techniques of Turner's brush strokes to capture transformational light in the landscape. They tried to confront their experience honestly if not idealistically and to "see what it was that they saw." They looked at life at the threshold of perception and consciousness with the tension between subject and object to shed glorious light in their poetic imaginations expressed so well in Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode": "The sunshine is a glorious birth | But yet I know, where'er I go | That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. | Whither is fled the visionary gleam | Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Wordsworth once wrote of Milton: "Thou hadst a voice that soundeth like the sea." What a sublime, timeless legacy these dear, struggling, country gentlemen left us as Byatt has made so luminously clear in her wonderful book.
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