Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems

by Jack Stillinger

Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eolian Harp, for example, eighteen of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and comparable numbers for This Lime-Tree Bower, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and Dejection: An Ode. Such multiplicity of versions raises interesting theoretical and practical questions about the constitution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195085833
• ISBN13: 9780195085839
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"