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- Title: Andrew Stauffer. Anger, Revolution, And Romanticism (Book Review)
- Author : Studies in Romanticism
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 171 KB
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Andrew Stauffer. Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 233. $80.00. Among the poems collected in Coleridge's Sibylline Leaves was "Fire, Famine, and Slaughter," a poem originally published in The Morning Post in 1798 under the title "A War Eclogue." The republication of this radical poem in 1817 called for an explanation, and Coleridge offered an elaborate "Apologetic Preface," the subject of which is anger. The "Preface" recounts a conversation prompted by Walter Scott's recitation of the poem at an 1803 dinner party whose guests included "more men of celebrity in science or polite literature than are commonly found collected round the same table" (among them, Coleridge, Scott, and Humphry Davy). (1) The poem had been published anonymously, and Coleridge's authorship was known only to Davy; behind this blind he undertakes a spirited self-defense, working to distance himself from the revolutionary sympathies with which the poem is imbued.