Portraits of Coleridge

Name: Portraits of Coleridge
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ISBN: 9780198184690

ISBN-10: 0198184697

ISBN-13: 9780198184690

Edition: 1999

Authors: Morton D. Paley

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What do the portraits of a great poet tell us about his life, his image of himself, and the ideas of him held by his friends and his public? Portraits of Coleridge attempts to answer this question with respect to the author of `The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and `Kubla Khan'. It also provides a critical and scholarly study of the portraits as works of art, considering the place of each in the career of the artist who produced it. All the life portraits are discussed in detail, catalogued, and (wherever there is an extant photograph) reproduced. As many verbal descriptions by contemporaries as possible are reprinted for the sake of comparison. A concluding essay on posthumous portraits of…

Book details

List price: $265.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/24/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 196
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Abbreviations


A Coleridge Chronology


Introduction: The Image of the Romantic Poet


The Life Portraits of Coleridge


After-Images: Posthumous Portraits of Coleridge


Catalogue


Supplementary


Notes: missing or Non-Existent Portraits


Bibliography


Index