Having generated this thread with a throwaway line (see separate message),
can I ask whether it is "politically correct" to be reading the version
published in the Random House "Selected Poetry & Prose of Coleridge" (Modern
Library College Editions), ed. Donald A. Stauffer?
1805 versus 1850 version of "Dejection: An Ode"? Now, unlike others on this
list, I do not wish to indulge in "bashing academics" (particularly as I
post messages asking for "best" translations, which are invariably - and
helpfully - answered by academics). As a young man, I rejected a chance to
become an academic, in order to pursue a career as a journalist/professional
writer. It has been/is fun! Though, on occasions, I regret not becoming an
academic (Eliot's "the path not taken").
Howsomever, could this discussion of Coleridge be described as "arcane"; of
interest only to academic specialists, teachers of literature?
Just curious - Viv
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