Institution: | Rhodes University |
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Department: | Faculty of Humanities, English |
Degree: | MA |
Year: | 1973 |
Keywords: | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 – Dramatic works; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 – Criticism and interpretation; English drama – 18th century – History and criticism |
Record ID: | 1524225 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007255 |
From Introduction: In the Preface to his book The idea of Coleridge's Criticism, Richard Harter Fogle states: There is... I am confident, a need for such a study as I here introduce; a study of Coleridge's criticism in itself, tentatively accepting the metaphysical assumptions on which it is based and focusing upon its central principles and inner relationship; endeavouring without direct regard for its external connections to the past and the present to see it as a whole, yet at the same time anxiously regardful of its permanent significance and its bearing upon practical criticism. These are the principles on which I have based this thesis, applied more particularly to Coleridge's criticism of drama.