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Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets | by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Now First Collected by T. Ashe
Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Now First Collected by T Ashe Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: G. Bell Subjects: English drama Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Poetry Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origina... more »l. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURE VII. T N" a former lecture11 endeavoured to point ont the union of the Poet and the Philosopher, or rather the warm embrace between them, in the " Venus and Adonis " and " Lucrece " of Shakspere. From thence I passed on to " Love's Labour's Lost," as the link between his character as a Poet, and his art as a Dramatist; and I showed that, although in that work the former was still predominant, yet that the germs of his subsequent dramatic power were easily discernible. I will now, as I promised in my last, proceed to " Komeo and Juliet," not because it is the earliest, or among the earliest of Shakspere's works of that kind, but because in it are to be found specimens, in degree, of all the excellences which he afterwards displayed in his more perfect dramas, but differing from them in being less forcibly evidenced, and less happily combined: all the parts are more or less present, but they are not united with the same harmony. There are, however, in " Bomeo and Juliet" passages where the poet's whole excellence is evinced, so that nothingsuperior to them can be met with in the productions of his after years. The main distinction between this play and , others is, as I said, that the parts are less happily combined, or to borrow a phrase from the painter, the whole work is less in keeping. Grand portions are produced : we have limbs of giant growth; but the production, as a whole, in which e...« less