Coleridge

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani places Coleridge among the English Romantics, contemporaries of German Romanticism1, and calls him a "Romantic of the North"2. He returns above all to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which he calls "the most beautiful poem there is"3. What he takes from it is the act of the old mariner who kills with a crossbow the white albatross, the bird that had freed the ship from the ice, and then the guilt that follows4. He sees in the albatross pierced by an arrow a return of the opposition between red and white, and in Coleridge a Romantic who is already nocturnal5. He also uses the poem's frame, the young man so captivated by the tale that he forgets the wedding he was heading to, to distinguish the end from the goal6. He reads Dejection: An Ode as a poem of dejection, already spleen without its symptoms7. Finally, he links this poetry to the Industrial Revolution: in his view, landscape poetry develops further where industrialisation is most advanced89.

1. 1Griaule (Marcel)18 Oct 2017 · 49:18
2. 2Musicosophie 9. Ironie romantique et sonate de Vinteuil15 Jan 2021 · 9:17
3. 3#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 16:55
4. 4#6 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude26 Apr 2020 · 27:46
5. 5Staël (Mme de )26 May 2019 · 21:15
6. 6#1.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 14:38
7. 7Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021 · 41:18
8. 8Que faire ? 3/329 Jan 2016 · 1:10:15
9. 910#2 Dialectiques de l'identité et de la différence6 Oct 2021 · 18:17

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