On Language

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • A. C. Goodson

   Pages 1-12

3. The Language of Politics

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   Pages 13-31

4. Language and Culture

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   Pages 32-58

5. Sacred Fire: The Language of Poetry

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6. The Theory of Language

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   Pages 89-120

7. Words are Things: Etymology and Desynonymy

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   Pages 121-139

8. Organ of Language

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9. The Language of Religion

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   Pages 161-183

10. Back Matter

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This collation from S. T. Coleridge's contributions to the theory of language presents an imposing revision of the enlightenment approach to language. Selections from his verse, notebooks, journalism and ephemera are arranged under headings including the language of politics; language and culture; the language of poetry; theory of language; words and things; organ of language; and the language of religion. The editor's introduction situates Coleridge's thinking in its period, and with modern theory in mind.

• Age of Enlightenment
• bibliography
• Coleridge
• culture
• enlightenment
• language
• language and culture
• mind
• organ
• poetry
• politics
• religion
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• theory of language
• writing

• Michigan State University, USA

  A. C. Goodson

A. C. GOODSON is Professor of English, and Director of the Program in Comparative Literature, Michigan State University. His publications include Verbal Imagination: Coleridge and the Language of Modern Criticism (Oxford UP, 1988).

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