Coleridge's Writings: On the Sublime

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Symbols and Abbreviations Introduction 'These soul-ennobling views': Enlightenment and Sublimity in Coleridge's Early Writings 'A stirring and inquietude of Fancy': Coleridge and the Sublimity of Landscape 'A grand feeling of the unimaginable': Transcendence in Literature and the Visual Arts 'That life-ebullient stream': Coleridge and Romantic Psychology 'An intuitive beholding': Aspects of the Sublime in Coleridge's Religious Thought Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

DAVID VALLINS is a Lecturer in English at Hiroshima University, Japan, and has previously taught at universities in Britain and Hong Kong. His publications include Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), and articles on Akenside, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, R.W. Emerson and Virginia Woolf.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, D. Vallins, David Vallins
• Assisted by: David Vallins (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9780333972502
• ISBN: 978-0-333-97250-2
• No. of pages: 197
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 220 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 357 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 197 p.
• Series: Coleridge's Writings; Coleridge's Writings
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Poetry, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection