Chapter 1 Literature Review第1章文献综述
1.1 Studies on S. T. Coleridge and Christabel Abroad国外科勒律治与克里斯塔贝尔研究
柯勒律治被他的一些同时代人誉待，如今他作为一名文学评论家和一位才华横溢的抒情诗人而闻名。国外的研究主要集中在Coleridge的生活经历、诗歌想象、宗教、政治哲学观、他的自然观和他的文学美学。Coleridge is hailed by some of his contemporaries and is generally celebrated today as a literary critic and a lyric poet of brilliant wit. The studies abroad are largely centered on Coleridge’s life experience, poetic imagination, religious, political and philosophical view, his view of nature, and his literary aesthetics. Coleridge’s life experience is the base of further study on his thought. Allan Grant in A Preface to Coleridge (1972) gives an account of Coleridge’s journey to a poet and a thinker by describing the men he has met and the place he has visited. Rosemary Ashton’s The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Biography (1996) is a relatively objective biography, substantial in content and spontaneous in writing style. It comments on the fifteen stages in Coleridge’s life, full of technicality and readability. Richard Holmes expressively elucidates the early life, the heyday, and the late years throughout Coleridge’s career, including Coleridge (1982)、Coleridge: Early Visions (1989) and Coleridge: Darker Reflections (1998). The author displays an insightful investigation, with delicate and exquisite smoothness, into Coleridge’s thought and the social environment and status in which his works come into being. Seamus Perry publishes Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 2003 as one of The British Library Writers’ Lives. It gives a brief introduction of Coleridge’s life experience from stem to stern.
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1.2 Studies on S. T. Coleridge and Christabel in China
In general, the studies on Coleridge in China start relatively later than in the West; however, it has drawn more and more attention in recent years, and enhanced the studies from a variety of perspectives, namely, studies on Coleridge’s poetic imagination, religious and philosophical view, literary aesthetics and his view of nature. A host of scholars establish a platform for the studies on Coleridge’s poetic imagination. Wang Zuoliang, in The History of Romantic Poetry (1991), mainly introduces Coleridge’s imagination and details the practice of it. He puts forward that it is a dilemma for Coleridge to depend everything on imagination, and to base poetry on inspiration and genius. While in his another book The History of English Poetry (1997), he refreshes his opinion and begins to appreciate the imagination, regarding it as the peak of a poet that none other than geniuses like Shakespeare and Milton can reach in Literary circle. Lei Tipei, in Introduction to Western Literature Theories, awards Coleridge’s imagination as the most “Romantic disposition” and the “extraordinary and abundant” (Lei, 2003: 126) one, and emphasizes that the power of imagination is considered as the highest qualification for a poet and the soul of the poetry. Coleridge’s poetry is suffused &nbs
