Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • David Vallins

   Pages 1-10

3. On Poetry and Philosophy: Romantic Feeling and Theory in Coleridge and Schelling

   • David Vallins

   Pages 11-24

4. Feeling into Thought

   • David Vallins

   Pages 25-48

5. The Feeling of Knowledge: Insight and Delusion in Coleridge

   • David Vallins

   Pages 49-65

6. Thought into Feeling

   • David Vallins

   Pages 66-101

7. Power and Progress: Coleridge’s Metaphors of Thought

   • David Vallins

   Pages 102-140

8. The Limits of Expression: Language, Consciousness, and the Sublime

   • David Vallins

   Pages 141-166

9. Back Matter

   Pages 167-221

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In addition to being the leading philosopher of English Romanticism and one of its greatest poets, Coleridge explores the dynamics of consciousness and mental functioning more extensively than any of his contemporaries. This book compares his psychological theories with his diverse exemplifications of Romanticism's self-reflexive quest for transcendence, showing how he continually highlights the circular and mutual influence of ideas and emotions underlying Romantic idealism and the cult of the sublime.

• bibliography
• Coleridge
• consciousness
• dynamics
• English
• English Romanticism
• idealism
• knowledge
• metaphor
• philosophy
• poetry
• psychology
• Romanticism
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• University of Hong Kong, China

  David Vallins

DAVID VALLINS studied at Cambridge, Sussex, and Oxford Universities, and is currently Research Fellow in English at The University of Hong Kong. His previous posts were at The University of Wales, Cardiff, West Sussex Institute, and the University of the West of England, Bristol. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Journal of the History of Ideas, ELH, Modern Philology, Prose Studies, and Romanticism.

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