Coleridge's Literatrue Criticism And Poem Production

As a famous romantic poet and poetry theorist in the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, Samuel Taylor coleridge has been enjoying great prestige in the West. But in China few of his works are known in Chinese academic circles. This is not merely for Coleridge is a particular personage who was very famous but has few works, but also for most of his theoretical works haven't been translated into Chinese. It must be supposed to be great regret.The thesis tries to make a systematic study and explain in a clear way to Coleridge's literature criticism and poem theory, using the method of combine history research with compare research, from a dialectical materialist and historical materialist point of view and stand. And tries to find out its historical limitations and practical significance from the current field of vision view. The thesis consists of three parts: the introduction, the main body and the conclusion. The main body can be divided into three parts in all.In the first part, the form and characteristic of Coleridge's romantic literature ideology is discussed. The form of Coleridge's literature ideology has a directly relationship with the social politics and culture in Britain at that time. The encourage of the Great revolution in France, the quickly development of industry and the influence of the classical idealism philosophy in Germany, all of these have been the most important reasons to form Cloeridge's literature ideology. The characteristic of Coleridge's literature ideology chiefly possesses three points: The first one is the religion metaphysics colour; the second one is emphasizing visualize together with the emblem; the third one is advocating empathic.In the second part, the principle and theory core of Coleridge's literature criticism is chiefly expounded. The principle of literature criticism chiefly possesses three points: About the verse noumenon, the production and appreciation , the nature of the art. Most of his literature criticism theories are based on these three points. The imaginative power is the core of Coleridge's romantic poetry theory. In this part of thesis, the position of the literature criticism and its connotation and feature and the role in the creation have been expounded in greater detailed.The third part is standing for research and analysis to Coleridge's work. His famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Moriner" is mainly discussed. The focus is on the analysis of its value and artistic distinguishing feature, belongs to the case research. This poem is based on an old sailor who heard the conversations between two demons in his dream. All kinds of supernatural scenes present in front of the readers. Its content is so magical that it has possessed the subtitle "The dream of a poet". This poem is well believed because its form is clear and the language is vivid. The most splendid point is the usage of the odd montages imagery. It interleaves dream together with actual, mix imagery and felling together, made the readers feel mysterious, swindle, terror and hazy. As a result, this poem is called the romantical "proclamation book". Moreover, the recouning composition and the wholeness emblem moral mechanism are also the most outstanding. Meanwhile, the emblem technique used in "Kubla Khan" has also been expounded.The last part of this thesis is the conclusion. In the conclusion, Coleridge's literature ideology and his creation have been summarized with the history concept, and its value and limitations have also been talked about. Something should be particularly pointed out is that the standard of evaluation to Coleridge is different,in the West and East. The East people particularly lay on political views, and the West people lay on the theory. Because of this, the West people set a high value on him and sing the praises of the pioneer of the contemporary semantics. But in the east, there are even more criticisms to him than praises, especially in former Soviet Union, someone even said that his romant...