Coleridge's Writings: On the Sublime (Coleridge's Writings)

✍ Scribed by David Vallins

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 forces underlying it, and with literature as producing a similar feeling of the inexpressible, to an increasing emphasis on contemplating the ineffable nature of God, as well as the transcendent power of Reason or spiritual insight.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
1 'These soul-ennobling views': Enlightenment and Sublimity in Coleridge's Early Writings......Page 30
2 'A stirring & inquietude of Fancy': Coleridge and the Sublimity of Landscape......Page 52
3 'A grand feeling of the unimaginable': Transcendence in Literature and the Visual Arts......Page 98
i. General......Page 100
ii. Individual authors and texts......Page 105
iii. The visual arts......Page 125
4 'That life-ebullient stream': Coleridge and Romantic Psychology......Page 128
i. Evolution......Page 131
ii. 'Thought' and 'things'......Page 141
iii. Reason and understanding......Page 148
iv. Politics and society......Page 161
v. Love......Page 163
vi. The psychology of the sublime......Page 168
5 'An intuitive beholding': Aspects of the Sublime in Coleridge's Religious Thought......Page 172
Notes......Page 187
Bibliography......Page 203
C......Page 211
J......Page 212
W......Page 213