This new volume demonstrates the extent and diversity of Coleridge's writings on the sublime. It highlights the development of his aesthetic of transcendence from an initial emphasis on the infinite progressiveness of humanity, through a fascination with landscape as half-revealing the infinite forc
Coleridge’s Career
✍ Scribed by Graham Davidson (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 377
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The Poetry of Nature....Pages 9-17
The Conversation Poems....Pages 18-44
The Supernatural Poems....Pages 45-87
Kubla Khan and Dejection: An Ode....Pages 88-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
The God Within....Pages 117-151
Coleridge’s Christology....Pages 152-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
The Essential Self and the Life of Nature....Pages 183-217
The Idea of History....Pages 218-247
The Creation of the State....Pages 248-297
Conclusion....Pages 298-303
Back Matter....Pages 304-357
✦ Subjects
British and Irish Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature
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