Coleridge and the daemonic imagination / Gregory Leadbetter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leadbetter, Gregory, 1975-

Series:

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Criticism and interpretation.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Religion.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Psychology.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Philosophy.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834--Friends and associates.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Friends and associates.

Wordsworth, William.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Supernatural in literature.

Romanticism--England.

Romanticism.

Friends and associates.

Philosophy.

Psychology.

Religion.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

Physical Description:

xiii, 274 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"Fascinated by his own imagination, Coleridge secretly wrote that its characteristic blend of power and desire made him a "Daemon": a being superstitiously feared as "a something transnatural." Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination examines this simultaneous experience of exaltation and transgression as a formative principle in Coleridge's poetry and the fabric of his philosophy. In a reading that spans the breadth of Coleridge's achievement, through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, this book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel." Gregory Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange, in a study that unfolds into an essay on poetry, spirituality, and the drama of human becoming"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230103214

0230103219

OCLC:

666237201

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