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Sally West, Coleridge and Shelley: Textual Engagement.(Book review)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20070922
Author:Peterfreund, Stuart

(Ashgate, 2007) xii + 197 $99.95.

Sally West's Coleridge and Shelley: Textual Engagement published in the Ashgate Nineteenth Century series, under the general editorship of Vincent Newey and Joanne Shattock, focuses on the appropriations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Percy Bysshe Shelley in his poetry. Eschewing the intertextual viewpoint of the likes of Kristeva and Derrida, neither of whom is mentioned in the text or notes, West develops a theory of poetic influence that draws for its intellectual precedents upon Harold Bloom, Peter De Bolla, and John Hollander, while ...

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