The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe: (The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, philosopher and critic, a founder of British Romanticism, wrote with William Wordsworth the Lyrical Ballads (1798), which included his great poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. It was this work which was first to carry his reputation across Europe in many translations and through the rich illustrations by Gustave Doré. His poetry was received as late Romantic, visionary and symbolist, in later phases of European reception; he was known too as the translator of Schiller. His prose was known mainly in selections: chapters of his literary life Biographia Literaria; elements of his Shakespeare lectures; and other literary, political, philosophical and religious lectures, essays, and aphorisms, especially his brilliant Table Talk. In the last fifty years the Notebooks and Letters, and the recent Collected Works, have added to his stature at home and abroad. This collection of essays by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, records how Coleridge's works have been received, translated and interpreted across Europe from his own time to today, and will contribute to the new recognition of one of the greatest of English poets, critics and cultural thinkers.

Table of Contents:
Series Editor's Preface: Elinor Shaffer (University of London) List of Contributors Abbreviations Timeline: Paul Barnaby (Walter Scott Digital Archive) Introduction: Meteoric Traces: Coleridge's Afterlife in Europe: Elinor Shaffer (University of London) 1. Coleridge's English Afterlife: From De Quincey to I. A. Richards: Seamus Perry (Oxford University) 2. Coleridge's Early Reception in France, from the First to the Second Empire: Michael John Kooy (University of Warwick) 3. The Reception of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner through Gustave Doré's Illustrations: Gilles Soubigou (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) 4. The Reception of Coleridge in Germany to World War II: Frederick Burwick (UCLA) 5.Coleridge's German Reception 1945 to the Present: Hans-Werner Breunig (University of Magdeburg) 6. From the Spanish Exiles to the Symbolists: Coleridge's Poetry and Poetics in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Eugenia Perojo-Arronte (University of Valladolid) 7. A Path for Literary Change: Poetics and Aesthetic Criticism in Twentieth-Century Spain: Eugenia Perojo-Arronte (University of Valladolid) 8. The Translation of Coleridge's Poetry and his Influence on Twentieth-century Italian poetry: Edoardo Zuccato (IULM University, Milan) 9.Coleridge's Aesthetic Philosophy and Critical Writings in Italy: Franco Nasi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) 10.On the Very Late Reception of Coleridge's Writings in Portugal: Jorge Bastos da Silva (University of Oporto) 11. A Spectre or an Unacknowledged Visionary? Coleridge in Czech Culture: Martin Procházka (Charles University, Prague) 12, A Laker, a Friend to Poland, or a European Classic: Coleridge's Polish Reception: Monika Coghen (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) 13. The Albatross in Russia: praised, shot and repented: Elena Volkova (Lomonosov Moscow State University) Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Elinor Shaffer, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, has published on Romantic and Victorian literature, is author of 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School of Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, edited the annual journal Comparative Criticism, and most recently has contributed to Samuel Butler: Victorian Against the Grain. Edoardo Zuccato is Professor of English literature at IULM University, Milan. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Comparative Critical Studies and an editor-in-chief of the journal of poetry and translation Testo a fronte.

Review :
"Elinor Shaffer's lucid introductory overview of the contents of the entire volume is a fine guide...admirably well-defined narrative...Coleridge as theorist of the imagination, Coleridge the modernist are marshalled into a ten-page account with a documentation unfailingly deft and enlightening." Translation and Literature, 2009