Opium And The Romantic Imagination
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Author | : Alethea Hayter |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9780571254163 |
Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered. In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.
Author | : Alethea Hayter |
Publisher | : Borgo Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1989-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780809570935 |
Author | : Edward Lockspeiser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Exhibition catalogues |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cecil Maurice Bowra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1949-02-05 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780674730090 |
Author | : Thomas de Quincey |
Publisher | : Gottfried & Fritz |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2015-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Author | : Arts Council of Great Britain |
Publisher | : London : Arts Council |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Milligan |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2012-11-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813934686 |
Use front of jacket for front paperback cover Back paperback cover camera-ready copy on sheet 1 Paperback title page and copyright page included to substitute for cloth edition pages. Please call Mark Saunders at 434-924-6064 if questions arise
Author | : Jennifer Ford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521583160 |
This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer Ford's emphasis is on analysing the ways in which dreaming processes were construed, by Coleridge in his dream readings, and by his contemporaries in a range of poetic and medical works. This historical exploration of dreams and dreaming allows Ford to explore previously neglected contemporary debates on 'the medical imagination'. By avoiding purely biographical or psychoanalytic approaches, she reveals instead a rich historical context for the ways in which the most mysterious workings of the Romantic imagination were explored and understood.
Author | : Martin Booth |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1466853972 |
Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture--from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers; from the earliest medical science to the Sino-British opium wars. And, in the present day, as the addict population rises and penetrates every walk of life, Opium shows how the international multibillion-dollar heroin industry operates with terrifying efficiency and forms an integral part of the world's money markets. In this first full-length history of opium, acclaimed author Martin Booth uncovers the multifaceted nature of this remarkable narcotic and the bittersweet effects of a simple poppy with a deadly legacy.
Author | : Nigel Leask |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2004-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521604444 |
Studies the work of Byron, Shelley and De Quincey and other Romantic writers in relation to Britain's imperial designs on the 'Orient'.