Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination [electronic resource] /
Leadbetter, G.author.
Through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel . Re-reading the origins of Romanticism, Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- The Willing Daemon: Coleridge and the Transnatural -- "Pagan Philosophy" and the "Pride of Speculation" : Spiritual Politics and the Metaphysical Imagination, 1795-1797 -- "Not a Man, But a Monster" : Organicism, Becoming and the Daemonic Imago -- Transnatural Language: The "Library-Cormorant" in the "Vernal Wood" -- "The Dark Green Adder's Tongue": Osorio and the "Poetry of Nature" -- "A Distinct Current of My Own": Poetry and the Uses of the Supernatural -- "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" -- "Kubla Khan" -- "Christabel".
Through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel . Re-reading the origins of Romanticism, Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Poetry.
British literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.