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| Coleridge's Poetry and Prose: Authoritative Texts, Criticism | | | Author: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | ISBN: | 0393979040 | | Format: | Handover | | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | |  |  |  | | | | | | | Book Review | | | |
Book Description
Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic. His writings are wide-ranging in form and content, and vast in number. Norton's long-awaited edition is the most comprehensive and user-friendly student edition available. Supporting apparatus includes detailed headnotes, footnotes (both Coleridge's and the editors'), biographical register, glossary, and an index of poems and first lines. "Criticism" includes twenty assessments of Coleridge's poetry and prose by British and American authors. About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
About the Author
Nicholas Halmi is Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. He is co-editor of Coleridge's Opus Maximum (Princeton), contributor to The Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, and author of numerous articles on Enlightenment and Romantic topics. Paul Magnuson is Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of Reading Public Romanticism, Coleridge and Wordsworth: A Lyrical Dialogue, and Coleridge's Nightmare Poetry. Raimonda Modiano is Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Coleridge and the Concept of Nature, and co-editor of Volumes II-V of Coleridge's Marginalia (Princeton).
Coleridge's Poetry and Prose: Authoritative Texts, Criticism FROM THE PUBLISHER Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic. His writings are wide-ranging in form and content, and vast in number. This eagerly awaited Norton Critical Edition is the most comprehensive and accessible student edition available and has been prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars. The editors present Coleridge's writing in its historical context to indicate the public resonance of his work. The poetry selections highlight the development of his poetic canon, the construction of his volumes of poetry, and the evolution of his poetic style. The editors have arranged the poems as they first appeared in collections under Coleridge's name. The prose writings represent Coleridge's public and private voices and include selections from all the major prose published during his lifetime as well as from his notebooks, letters, and marginalia. Supporting apparatus includes detailed headnotes, authorial and editorial annotations, a biographical register, a glossary, and an index of poems and first lines. "Criticism" collects twenty assessments of Coleridge's poetry and prose by nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American authors, including William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, Robert Penn Warren, M. H. Abrams, Frances Ferguson, Karen Swann, Nicholas Roe, and Jerome McGann.
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