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Dramas of naming in Coleridge. (poetic naming of conversation poems)
From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Date: 19970922
Author:Barbarese, J.T.
A typological parallel is evident in the thematic and constitutional levels of the conversation poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, namely, 'The Nightingale' and 'Alice Du Clos.' There is an internal drama involved in the poetic naming of the bird in 'The Nightingale' and of Alice in 'Alice Du Clos.' The name Alice was defined as the creature of the garden. Naming is a compelling assignation of a thing expressed in language when it is supposed to be a ritual changeover into the actual truth of the thing thus named.
Throughout his career Samuel Taylor Coleridge was preoccupied with ...
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