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Essay on Coleridge and the Explosion of Voice | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 3397 words (13.59 pages) in the essay titled Coleridge and the Explosion of Voice Coleridge and the Explosion of VoiceColeridge is so often described in terms which are akin to the word, explosive, and by all accounts he was at times an unusually dynamic,charismatic and unpredictable person. His writings themselves could also betermed explosive merely from their physical form; a fragmented mass, some pieces finished but most not, much of his writing subject to procrastination or eventual change of mind. Today I want to address a moment in his life which produced, as Richard Holmes has characterized it, an explosion of his poetic talent[1]--Autumn 1799, when he first met Sara Hutchinson, and wrote, amongst other poems, the ballad, Love. In addressing this moment, I want to suggest that the voice of Coleridge at this time was explosive, vital and new, but only when set against the ancient balladic tradition with which he engaged. Whilst accepting the dynamism and the unpredictability of Coleridge, I want to show that his acceptance of a formal mode allowed him to find his own particular, romantic voice; for, as Stephen Parrish has pointed out, for Coleridge, the passion was obscured unless the poet spoke in his own voice. [2] The ballad revival of the eighteenth century supplied Romantic writers with an archive of voices from the past, a past which many seemed to idealize as a time of true feeling, when Nature not only had its place but was also imbued with a raw power. Particularly in the late 1790s, Coleridge worked within such a ... |
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Keywords: coleridge, eighteenth century, dynamism, ballad, explosive, explosion, procrastination, ossian, tradition, stephen parrish, raw power, sara hutchinson, formal mode, first met, romantic voice, poetic talent, romantic writers, richard holmes, commentators, charismatic