“Dubliners” is a collection of fifteen short stories written by James Joyce in which the author analyses the failure of self-realisation of inhabitants of Dublin in biographical and in psychological ways. The novel was originally turned down by publishers because they considered it immoral for its portrait of the Irish city. Joyce treats in “Dubliners” the paralysis of will in four stages: childhood, youth, maturity and public life. The paralysis of will is the courage and self-knowledge that leads ordinary men and women to accept the limitations imposed by the social context they live in. In “Dubliners” the style is both realistic - to the degree of perfectly recreating characters and idioms of contemporary Dublin - and symbolic – giving the common object unforeseen depth and a new meaning in order to show a new view of reality. Joyce defines this effect “epiphany” which indicates that moment when a simple fact suddenly explodes with meaning and makes a person realise his / her condi
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devon in 1772.
When he was eight his father died and he was ent to Christ's Hospital, a charity school in London.
In 1791 he attended Cambridge University and left it in 1794 without graduating.
In 1797 Coleridge settled at Somerset where William Wordsworth lived.
This was the beginning of the intellectual collaboration between the two poets that produced Lyrical Ballads, a collection which included Coleridge's most famous poem: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The years 1799-1810, when the two poets settled in the Lake District, were full of frustration for Coleridge to the point that he took large quantities of opium and quarelled with Wordsworth.
He died in 1834.
Coleridge's poems, referred to as the "demonic poems", share the presence of the supernatural in various forms. They are all dreams of haunted souls, and behind their exotic richness and half-magical lands, we sense that mysterious forces are at play, which conduct the choices of men.
These poems maybe seen as nightmares of passivity: the characters don't act but is acted upon.
Coleridge is the perfect example of a complex Romantic personality: an unfulfilled genius who never fully realized his potential in his poems.
Against the Empiricism, he held views of the creative mind as capable of recreating the world of the senses.
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