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The Hamlet Vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth
by Martin Greenberg
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0877451311
- ISBN 13
- 9780877451310
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About This Item
Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.: University of Iowa Press, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Different as they were as men and poets, Coleridge and Wordsworth were united by their common struggle with the Hamlet problem-the problem of the reflective mind divorced from effective life and action, of mind parted from nature, spirituality from vitality. In this arresting study of the lives and works of two great Romantic poets, Martin Greenberg shows how aptly this definition of the Hamlet problem characterizes both Coleridge and Wordsworth, no matter how dissimilar they were in other ways. For Coleridge, the Hamlet vocation of thought and meditation meant his personal failure to act, a falling out of human life. For Wordsworth, however, the Hamlet vocation meant rising above human life to sublime visionary heights. Yet the danger was the same in both cases: loss of life, of the common life of man and women in nature. In light of this shared problem, Greenberg elaborates the consequences for each in their poetry, their friendship, and their growth as artists. The Hamlet Vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth leads to a deeper understanding of familiar poetry and illuminates our modern spirituality and the self-haunting artistic mind of modern times..
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- First Landing Books & Art (US)
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- Title
- The Hamlet Vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth
- Author
- Martin Greenberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0877451311
- ISBN 13
- 9780877451310
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Place of Publication
- Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Martin Greenberg Hamlet Vocation Coleridge Wordsworth Poets Poet Poetry Poems Problem Spirituality Vitality Romantic Romance Meditation Vocation Nature Man Woman Artist Artists Modern
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