Bialostosky, Don H
(1978)
Coleridge's Interpretation of Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
Publications of the Modern Language Association [PMLA], 93 (5).
912 - 924.
ISSN 0030-8129
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Abstract
Although Coleridge's interpretation of Wordsworth's Preface has shaped subsequent understanding of Wordsworth's meaning, Coleridge was out not to clarify but to refute Wordsworth. His discussion of the Preface repeatedly shifts the positions to which it objects and misleadingly distinguishes between what the Preface can legitimately be taken to mean and what it probably does mean. It distorts Wordsworth's account of his choice of subjects and his comments on poetic language. Although intelligible meanings can be discovered for Wordsworth's remarks about "the real language of men" and the lack of "essential difference" between the languages of verse and prose, Coleridge's exegesis reduces them to absurdity. The position he offers in opposition to the one he draws from the Preface closely resembles the one Wordsworth actually put forward there. The real agreements and disagreements between Wordsworth's and Coleridge's views are more interesting than those to which Coleridge's interpretation has called attention.
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Bialostosky, Don H | dhb2@pitt.edu | DHB2 | |
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Date: |
1978 |
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Publication |
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No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
Journal or Publication Title: |
Publications of the Modern Language Association [PMLA] |
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93 |
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5 |
Publisher: |
Modern Language Association |
Page Range: |
912 - 924 |
Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > English |
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Yes |
ISSN: |
0030-8129 |
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/461778 |
Date Deposited: |
12 Jul 2012 21:09 |
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25 Aug 2017 05:08 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12214 |
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