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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
"Madoc", 1795: Robert Southey's Misdated Manuscript
Beteiligte:
Jarman, Paul
Erschienen:
Oxford University Press, 2004
Erschienen in:The Review of English Studies
Sprache:
Englisch
ISSN:
0034-6551;
1471-6968
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Beschreibung:
<p>In spring 1795, as his dream of Pantisocracy, along with his friendship with Coleridge, was slowly collapsing, Southey began work on "Madoc", the epic which was eventually published in 1805. Forced by personal circumstances to abandon composition after one and a half books, when Southey returned to "Madoc" in February 1797, he began afresh. The manuscript of this early fragment has survived, however, and in 1943, shortly before it passed into the possession of the British Library, it was published by Kenneth Curry in "Philological Quarterly". Curry dated the fragment to summer 1794, a dating which the British Library cataloguers and all subsequent critics have accepted without question. There is overwhelming evidence, however, that Southey did not begin work on Madoc until the following spring (1795). This article not only correlates that evidence, but also discusses the importance of relocating the initial composition of the poem away from that 'summer of Pantisocracy' to a period when Southey's intense relationship with Coleridge was disintegrating, and when a number of other biographical circumstances had combined to produce a personal crisis in his life. Finally, the article also corrects a number of Curry's misreadings, partly by comparing the British Library manuscript with that of Southey's first completed draft of "Madoc" (written between February 1797 and July 1799), which is now in the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, Cumbria.</p>