New book – ‘Tragic Coleridge’

To Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tragedy was not solely a literary mode, but a philosophy to interpret the history that unfolded around him.

‘Tragic Coleridge’, by Chris Murray of Durham University, explores the tragic vision of existence that Coleridge derived from Classical drama, Shakespeare, Milton and contemporary German thought. Offering new readings of canonical poems, as well as neglected plays and critical works, the book elaborates Coleridge’s tragic vision in relation to a range of thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle to George Steiner and Raymond Williams.

Chris Murray is an IAS Junior Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. His research centres on Romanticism, and explores the dialogues British Romantic authors create with Classical literature, Irish studies, and Orientalism.

To find out more and to buy online at a special price, visit www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409447542

Tragic Coleridge by Chris Murray

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