ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 21
Reading: (1) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, excerpts from Biographia Literaria,
chapters XIII and XIV (CT, 478–480)
(2) John Keats, letters (CT, 493–494)
(3) Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry (CT, 509–514)
Question: Can Coleridge’s thesis that “a poem of any length neither can be, [nor] ought to be, all poetry” (p. 480a) be squared with his account of what a poem is (p. 479b)?
Links to poetry by these authors:
Keats: http://www.bartleby.com/126/index1.html
Coleridge: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/poems_links.html
Peacock: http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/#P02
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