Coleridge on Imagination

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press: Midland Books. Very Good+. 1960. First Edition Thus; Third Printing. Paperback. Very Good+: shows very light wear to the extremities and mild rubbing to the panels; a price has been rubbed out at the upper corner of the front panel; a bit of sticker residue at the inside of the front panel; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels (but the sticker residue at the inside of the front panel may have been from a removed bookplate; no other indication that this might have been an ex-library copy). A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.2 x 0.75 inches) . Index. Language: English. Weight: 11ounces. First Edition Thus (1960) ; Third Printing (1969) . Paperback. Ivor Armstrong Richards CH (1893–1979) was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential æsthetic object. Richards' intellectual contributions to the establishment of the literary methodology of the New Criticism are presented in the books The Meaning of Meaning (1923) , written in collaboration with C. K. Ogden and Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) , Practical Criticism (1929) , and The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936). Kathleen Coburn OC FRSC (1905 – 1991) was a Canadian academic and a leading authority on the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1930 the 25-year-old Coburn visited The Chanter's House at Ottery St Mary in Devon, which had been the home of the Coleridge family for centuries. Here she discovered an extensive archive of documents written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Geoffrey Coleridge, 3rd Baron Coleridge gave her unlimited access to this archive, and allowed her to have it photographed and the copies placed in the British Museum for the benefit of future scholars. He also granted her permission to edit and publish Coleridge's Notebooks, which she edited from 1957 to 1990. She received a Leverhulme Award in 1948, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953, was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1957, an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford in 1970, an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1974, an honorary DLitt of the University of Cambridge in 1975, and an honorary Doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1978 in recognition of her achievement in the field of Samuel Taylor Coleridge research and study. In 1979 she was awarded the Pierre Chauveau Medal by the Royal Society of Canada and the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1990. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; xxv, 237 pages .