Approaches to Teaching Coleridge's Poetry and Prose
Editor(s): Richard E. Matlak
Pages: x & 185 pp.
Published: 1991
ISBN: 9780873527002 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873525497 (hardcover)
"A valuable collection. There is at least one essay dealing with each of Coleridge's major works. Moreover, all of the essays are the contributions of teachers who are eager to share their most successful strategies."
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
"If you thought you knew it all about teaching Coleridge, guess again!"
Romantic Movement
Richard Matlak, the editor of this Approaches volume, depicts Coleridge as both a model student and an accomplished teacher. "Stimulate the heart to love, and the mind to be early accurate," Coleridge advised during a lecture on education, "and all other virtues will rise of their own accord." The essays in this collection will help teachers apply Coleridge's precept to the teaching of his poetry and prose.
One of seven books on Romantic poetry in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this volume is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," evaluates texts, the teacher's library, student reading, and audiovisual materials. In the second part, "Approaches," seventeen established scholars describe the methods they have found most effective in presenting Coleridge in the classroom. The first two essays examine the many different sides of the poet's personality and explore his relation to British society. In the essays that follow, contributors discuss Coleridge's prose, the Conversation poems, and the Mystery poems--individually and in combination--from linguistic, psychological, sociological, historical, New Critical, feminist, intertextual, and other perspectives.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Coleridge's Poetry and Prose
PART 1: MATERIALS
Richard E. Matlak
Introduction: Coleridge, Patron Teacher
What We Teach and How
The Choice of Texts
The Teacher's Library
Student Reading
Audiovisual Materials
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction: Coleridge, Patron Student
Biographical and Social Backgrounds
The Many Coleridges
Max F. Schulz
Coleridge and British Society
Donald H. Reiman
Teaching the Prose and Literary Criticism
On Tracking Coleridge: The Student as Sleuth
Laurence S. Lockridge
Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Coleridge
James C. McKusick
Truth and Pleasure in Wordsworth's Preface and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria
Don H. Bialostosky
Building Domes in Air: "Kubla Khan" in the Introductory Literary Criticism Class
James Holt McGavran, Jr.
Teaching the Conversation Poems
Trembling into Thought: Approaching Coleridge through "The Eolian Harp"
John A. Hodgson
Teaching the Coleridge-Wordsworth Dialogue
Paul Magnuson
What Comes of "Dejection"?
John T. Ogden
Teaching the Mystery Poems
Vision and Revision in "Kubla Khan"
Norman Fruman
Forty Questions to Ask of Ancient Mariner
Richard E. Matlak
The Questions of Christabel
Mary Favret
Teaching Christabel: Gender and Genre
Karen Swann
Teaching Ancient Mariner and Christabel to Students of Criminal Justice
Anya Taylor
Teaching the Fragment: Christabel and "Kubla Khan"
Patricia L. Skarda
Coleridge and the Mysterious (M)other
Anne Williams
Coleridge's Mystery Poems and Their Critics
Jeanne Moskal
Works Cited
Primary Coleridge Texts and Abbreviations
Books and Articles
Audiovisual Aids
Index of Names
Index of Works by Coleridge
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