Inquiring Spirit : A New Presentation of Coleridge from His Published and Unpublished Prose Writings (Revised Edition) / Kathleen Coburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Contributor:

Coburn, Kathleen.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When this work was first prepared for publication in 1949 the Notebooks and Collected Letters were still in manuscript, and many of the printed works, if not unavailable, were scarce. The continuing publication of Coleridge's works has not lessened the demand for a general introduction to Coleridge's mind and its workings.Selections from works including The Friend, Essays on His Own Times, Aids to Reflection, the Statesman's Manual, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, and Table Talk, and from other lesser known works are arranged by topic. The subjects - psychology, education, language, logic and philosophy, literary criticism, the arts, science, society, religion and his contemporaries - reflect the astonishing range of Coleridge's intellectual interests. The revised edition of this anthology is still the best introduction to the prose works of an inquiring spirit.There is a fine introductory essay, and each section has an introduction of its own. The annotation is apt, and the index efficient. The whole book, in short, has been ordered with the distinction which is characteristic of Professor Coburn.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. 'Genuine Self-Research'

II. Exciting the Vegetating and Germinating Powers

III. No Passive Tools

IV. Hares and Nettles

V. Not a Scalping Knife

VI. The Reconcilement of External and Internal

VII. The Lovely Shapes and Sounds Intelligible

VIII. Landmarks in the Map of Human Nature

IX. Social Confidence

X. The Spirit of Obedience in Ourselves

References

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-5485-6

1-4426-5294-2

OCLC:

992471783