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Coleridge's Political Poetics

Radicalism and Whig Verse 1794 - 1802

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  1. Jacob Lloyd

    1. London, UK

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  • Offers a new interpretation of Coleridge’s major works in relation to his political ideas

  • Argues that Coleridge articulated radical ideas through references to Whig poetry

  • Establishes the importance of Coleridge’s poetic relationship with Mark Akenside

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jacob Lloyd
    Pages 1-17

  3. Coleridge and Whig Politics, 1794–1796

    • Jacob Lloyd
    Pages 19-32

  4. Whig Poetics and Akenside

    • Jacob Lloyd
    Pages 33-54

  5. Coleridge, Enthusiasm, and Bowles

    • Jacob Lloyd
    Pages 55-70

  6. Coleridge’s Poetry of 1796 and 1797

    • Jacob Lloyd
    Pages 71-104

  7. The Politics of Ancient Ballads: ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’ and Christabel

    • Jacob Lloyd
    Pages 105-145

  8. Retirement Politics in the Fears in Solitude Quarto

    • Jacob Lloyd
    Pages 147-210

  9. ‘Dejection. An Ode’ and the Renunciation of Political Poetics

    • Jacob Lloyd
    Pages 211-246

  10. Conclusion

    • Jacob Lloyd
    Pages 247-252

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 253-283
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About this book

This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. It argues that, during the 1790s, Coleridge was able to articulate radical ideas under the cover of widely accepted principles through his references to this poetry. He positioned his poetry within a mainstream discourse, even as he favoured radical social change. Jacob Lloyd argues that the poets Mark Akenside, William Lisle Bowles, and William Cowper each provided Coleridge with a kind of Whig poetics to which he responded. When these references are understood, much of Coleridge’s work which seems purely personal or imaginative gains a political dimension. In addition, Lloyd reassess Coleridge’s relationship with Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, to provide an original, political reading of ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’. This book revises our understanding of the political and poetic development of a major poet and, in doing so, provides a new model for the origins of British Romanticism more broadly

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  • London, UK

    Jacob Lloyd

About the author

Jacob Lloyd was awarded his doctorate in 2019 by the University of Oxford, UK. His research has appeared in several journals, including Notes & Queries, Romanticism, and The Wordsworth Circle, and he wrote a chapter for The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. He has taught at Balliol College, Oxford and at Stanford University in Oxford.

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