By R. Cronin
Lately critics of Romantic poetry have divided into teams that experience little to assert to each other. One workforce, as but the main quite a few, insists that to review a poem is to enquire the historic conditions out of which it used to be produced; the opposite retorts that poetry deals pleasures absolutely to be had merely to readers whose awareness is targeted on their language. This ebook makes an attempt to reconcile the 2 teams via arguing poet's foremost political motion is the forging of a brand new language and that the political import of a poem is a functionality of its type.
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The poem’s desultory character is most easily explained by the circumstances of its composition. The subtitle announces it as written on ‘the Christmas Eve of 1794’. 6 It ended in a confident vision of a world that at last had come to coincide with the world that the poet had always imagined. But in February 1796 Coleridge began writing an additional section of the poem, which was published on 9 March of that year in The Watchman, under the title ‘The Present State of Society’. Society has become ‘a sunscorched waste’, a metaphor uncomfortably at odds with the earlier association of the sun with divine illumination, ‘noontide majesty’.
Com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromsoe - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-08 Descending screws with ponderous fly-wheels wound The tawny plates, the new medallions round … (EV, 1, 281– 4) of a nostalgic Eden: it can be celebrated by poets only because it has been realized by engineers. For Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood is an exemplary figure not just because he was a friend, and a fellow member of the Birmingham Lunar Society, but because in his pottery art and industry were fully unified, and put to the service of Wedgwood’s Whiggish philanthropic impulses, not just in the conditions of employment that Wedgwood offered but in some of the products of his factory.
The status of Milton, Newton, Hartley, Priestley and Franklin is explicitly acknowledged. Apart from Hartley, who is an eccentric addition, this is a fairly standard pantheon amongst the radical dissenters of the 1790s, who commonly sought to equate ‘science’ and ‘freedom’, and it suggests that Coleridge is addressing himself to the shared concerns of the wide radical community. His emphatic opposition to the war against republican France, and his insistence that the war that really needs fighting is against social evils, particularly poverty and lack of education, are positions that he could expect to command general agreement.