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Cargando... Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poetspor Thomas De Quincey
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This didn't impress me as much as DeQuincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" but that's probably b/c I had so little interest in the subject of the poets. ( ) This is the last of my Lake District reads from my annual holiday there. Thomas de Quincey is better known, or notorious, for his work Confessions of an English Opium Eater. But here he is giving pen portraits of the three main Lake poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, largely from his own experience or those of people he has talked to in later years. In places the book gets rather bogged down in abstruse details of philosophy or literary arguments, but overall gives a good feel for the interconnected personal and intellectual lives of these poets, in their beautiful Lake District setting. There are also retelling of some of the famous Lake District stories such as the Maid of Buttermere and a tragic story of a couple who die in the mountains above Grasmere one night and their children have to fend for themselves. A good read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) described his adolescent discovery of the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge as 'an absolute revelation of untrodden worlds, teeming with power and beauty'. The admiring letter he sent to Wordsworth led to friendships with him, Coleridge and Robert Southey. Relations soured over time, though, as De Quincey's opium addiction and debts increased. Following Coleridge's death in 1834, De Quincey began writing his 'Lake Reminiscences', published serially in Tait's Magazine up to 1840. Candid, occasionally bitter, and highlighting flaws such as Coleridge's plagiarism, the recollections offended the surviving poets and their families, yet these vivid portraits attract continued scholarly interest for both the light shed on the subjects and on the author himself. The collected essays, reissued in this 1863 printing of the 1862 first edition, certainly served to confirm the Lake Poets as leading figures of English Romanticism. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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