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title	:	The Hamlet Vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth
author	:	Greenberg, Martin.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877451311
print isbn13	:	9780877451310
ebook isbn13	:	9781587290961
language	:	English
subject	English poetry--19th century--History and criticism, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,--1772-1834--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Characters--Hamlet, Coleridge, Samuel
publication date	:	1986
lcc	:	PR571.G74 1986eb
ddc	:	821/.7/09
subject	:	English poetry--19th century--History and criticism, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,--1772-1834--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Characters--Hamlet, Coleridge, Samuel

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Page iii The Hamlet Vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth Martin Greenberg UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1986 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1986 Jacket and book design by Sandra Strother Hudson Typesetting by G&S Typesetters, Inc., Austin, Texas Printing and binding by Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greenberg, Martin, 1918 Feb. 3 The Hamlet vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Includes index. 1. English poetry19th centuryHistory and criti cism. 2. RomanticismEngland. 3. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 17721834Criticism and interpretation. 4. Wordsworth, William, 17701850Criticism and inter pretation. 5. Spirituality in literature. 6. Poets, English19th centuryBiography. I. Title. PR571.G74 1986 821'.7'09 85-18189 ISBN 0-87745-131-1

Page v FOR PAULA, AGAIN

Page vii Contents Preface xi 1. "A Smack of Hamlet" Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1 2. Militant Quietist William Wordsworth 91 Notes 201 Index 205

Page ix As long as man was himself natureI mean pure nature, of course, not rawhe acted as an integrated sensuous being, a harmonious whole. Sense and reason, the receptive faculties and the faculties of action, had not yet parted company in him, much less come into contradiction. His feelings were not vague and inconsequent, without form, his thoughts an empty exercise of the imagination, without content; the former were governed by the law of necessity, the latter by reality. But when man arrived in the state of civilization and felt the hand of art laid on him, that harmony of the sensuous being was broken, and all that is possible to him now is moral unity, the aspiring to unity. Schiller, 1795 Every first movement, whatever is spontaneous, is beautiful, but everything is crooked, queer, as soon as it knows itself. Oh, the mind, the unhappy mind! Don't study too much, my dear boy. Kleist, 1806 Nothing is born by taking thought. That which is born comes of itself. D. H. Lawrence, 1916 Civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. Freud, 1930 Knowledge increases unreality. Yeats, 1939 Before Romanticism the intellectual did not exist, because there was no line of demarcation between life and learning.... To perceive that life is more important than thought, means being a learned man, an intellectual, it means that his own thought has not become life. Pavese, 1943

Page xi Preface My subject is the Hamlet vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth. By their Hamlet vocation I mean their being "called," each in his own way, to a life of inwardness, introspection, mindwith all its dangers. What dangers? The dangers of the reflective mind split apart from the effective will; spirituality parted from vitality, from human life and action; in Wordsworth's own language: knowledge and self-knowledge purchased by the loss of power. But this is an actual condition rather than a danger only threateningthe condition of the man of modern civilization, which Schiller describes as a rupture in the natural harmony of his sensuous being, Freud as a sacrifice of his natural instincts.

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