This book examines how Coleridge staged his private woes in the public space of the newspaper. It looks at his publications in the
Morning Post, which first published one of his most famous poems,
Dejection. An Ode. It reveals how he found a socially sanctioned public outlet for poetic disappointments and personal frustrations which he could not possibly articulate in any other way. Featuring fresh, contextual readings of established major poems; original readings of epigrams, sentimental ballads, and translations; analyses of political and human-interest stories, this book reveals the remarkable extent to which Coleridge used the public medium of the newspaper to divulge his complex and ambivalent private emotions about his marriage, his relationship with the Wordsworths and the Hutchinsons, and the effect of these dynamics on his own poetry and poetics.
Table of Content
1. Introduction: A Character in the Antithetical Manner.- 2. The Return from Germany.- 3. The
Morning Post and
Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie.- 4. Mothers, Sons, and Poets in the
Morning Post.- 5. Homeless at Grieta Hall.- 6. The 1800
Lyrical Ballads, Mary Robinson, and
The Mad Monk.- 7. Mary Robinson and the Poet Coleridge.- 8. ‘Merely the Emptying out of my Desk’.- 9. Conclusion:
Dejection. An Ode in the
Morning Post as a Palimpsest.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-
About the author
Heidi Thomson is Associate Professor of English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and President of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia. She is the editor of novels by Maria Edgeworth and the author of numerous chapters and articles about Thomas Gray, William Collins, Edgeworth, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats.
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