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"The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Creator:

England, Saara Amelia

Abstract:

My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

thesis examines William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s extraordinary but disjointed