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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
2 053 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
4 897 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2013155 kr
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This vintage book contains John Livingston Lowes''s most famous work, ''The Road to Xanadu''. In this text Lowes examines the various sources of Coleridge''s ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' and ''Kubla Khan'', exploring the books that he believed Coleridge would have read. It offers a fascinating insight into the creative process of the master poet. This is a text that will appeal to those with an interest in Coleridge and his most famous poems, and is a book not to be missed by the discerning poet and student of poetry. The chapters of this book include: ''Chaos'', ''The Falcon''s Eye'', ''The Deep Well'', ''The Shaping Spirit'', ''The Magical Synthesis'', ''Joiner''s Work: An Interlude'', ''The Loom'', ''The Pattern'', ''The Fields of Ice'', ''The Courts of the Sun'', ''The Journeying Moon'', etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now in a modern, affordable edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
E-bok
Engelska, 202322 kr
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It takes a great mind to study a great mind.The literary critic John Livingston Lowes puts his reputation on the line by chosing to analyse the sources, thoughts and imagination of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.The result, 'The Road to Xanadu', is a remarkable and insightful examination of the creative processes and reading material that inspired 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'.Lowes brilliantly uses his study of Coleridge as a springboard to a more wide-ranging analysis of the imagination.If you like Coleridge's work, you will be fascinated by this look into the mind of a literary giant.John Livingston Lowes (1867-1945) was an American scholar and critic of English literature. His best-known subjects were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Geoffrey Chaucer, author of 'The Canterbury Tales'.His most famous work is 'The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination', which examines the sources of Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'.