English Critics

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Micheal Billington- The Guardian review of the Globe Production
McMullan is an excellent Prospero in that he conveys the character's internal struggle between vengeful fury and humane tenderness
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Michael Billington- The Guardian review of the Globe Production
This is a production that pays foremost attention to Prospero's internal conflict and to Shakespeare's language
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The Guardian (Coleridge)
"His emotional frankness is one of his charms as a poet" His poems: "Soul-searching meditations" "Tempting to think of him as the first Confessional Poet" "His writing is musical" "His work is idyllic but unsettling" "Links the past to the present"
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The Guardian- Richard Holmes (Coleridge)
"His poems are strange, captivating and haunting" "Their outer landscapes dissolve into inner dream worlds" "His poems are often suffused with glimmering moonlight" Criticises that his creativity only came from Opium.
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The Guardian- Richard Holmes (Coleridge)
"He was interested in exploring such extreme states of mind and feeling which he combined with his fascination for philosophy, psychology and physical sciences" "C cultivated the impression that his poetry was uncontrolled and spontaneous, a waking d
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The Guardian- Richard Holmes (Coleridge)
"C cultivated the impression that his poetry was uncontrolled and spontaneous, a waking dream" -Criticising himself. C said poetry wasn't "an uncontrolled hallucination but an act of supreme attention"
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The Guardian- Richard Holmes (Coleridge)
"His sense of human powerlessness + despair are deliberately undermined by the use of natural, active symbols of nature"
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D.J. Snider
"It's conflicts and solutions are brought about by powers seemingly beyond human might and intelligence" "The rise of mankind from a state of nature, through language and education"- Through Caliban. "Prosepero= the Individual and Universal"
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D.J. Snider
"Ariel is a poetical mediator" "Ariel+ Caliban- opposite characters both aspiring for freedom; thus S created 2 meanings of the word: unrestrained lust + anarchy, and liberty through institutions, one is realization of sensuality, the other of reason
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D.J. Snider
"Prospero departs from the Real, passes through the Ideal + returns to the Real" (Middle sage shows P forced to abandon practical world on account of his devotion to his books + art)
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"His emotional frankness is one of his charms as a poet" His poems: "Soul-searching meditations" "Tempting to think of him as the first Confessional Poet" "His writing is musical" "His work is idyllic but unsettling" "Links the past to the present"

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