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Coleridge and the daemonic imagination [electronic resource] /

by Leadbetter, Gregory; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters: Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xiii, 274 p.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation | 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 | Supernatural in literature | Romanticism -- England | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
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".
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.Summary: "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.
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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".

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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