Morton D. Paley - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-09-15 | ISBN: 0199233055 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | 13.75 mb
Although Coleridge's thinking and writing about the fine arts was both considerable and interesting, this has not been the subject of a book before.
Coleridge owed his initiation into art to Sir George Beaumont. In 1803-4 he had frequent opportunities to learn from Beaumont, to study Beaumont's small but elegant collection and to visit private collections. Before leaving for Malta in April 1804, Coleridge wrote quot;I have learnt as much fr[om] Sir George Beaumont respecting Pictures Painting and Paint[ers as] I ever learnt on any subject from any man in the same Space of Time.quot;
In Italy in 1806, Coleridge's experience of art deepened, thanks to the American artist Washington Allston, who taught him to see the artistic sights of Rome with a painter's eye. Coleridge also visited Florence and Pisa, and later said of the frescoes in Pisa's Camp Santo: quot;The impression was greater, I may say, than that any poem ever made upon me.quot;
Back in England, Coleridge visited London exhibitions, country house collections, and even artists' studios. In 1814, both Coleridge and Allston were in BristolColeridge lecturing, Allston exhibiting. Coleridge's quot;On the Principles of Genial Criticismquot; began as a defense of Allston's paintings but became a statement about all the arts.
This book, an important contribution to Coleridge's intellectual biography, will make readers aware of a dimension of his thinking that has been largely ignored until now.
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