EN 1006 Lecture Notes - Absolution, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
17 Apr 2013
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More on romanticism nature and the apocalypse. Tourism in romantic poetry: wordsworth as a worshipper of nature . Used to see the wonder of children. Blessing of nature, which offers an absolution. 1788, experimented with illuminated printing (similar to illuminated manuscripts of middle. Books were hand-pressed, hand- coloured, hand- stitched = labour intensive. Poems communicate on a literal and visual level. His language is different form poets in the 18th century. 1491) tintern abbey about memory, about recollection, idealization, natural visionary beauty, that it is alive in some way. First edition of lyrical ballads (1798) produced with samuel taylor coleridge. Emphasis on people, events, speech of common life. Tintern abbey: nature:, time, mortality, memory, imagination, society, city, humanity, god. Poem celebrates growth and is aware of death, both optimistic and not. The speaker has returned to tintern abbey, 5 years later on july 13th 1878.
