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'Coleridge's Play of Mind' is a comprehensive & searching biographical investigation into the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Focusing on themes & ideas, it traces the development of his varying interests & obsessions, notably in the field of psychology.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beer, John B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, > 1772-1834.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, > 1772-1834
Poets, English > 19th century > Biography.
Poètes anglais > 19e siècle > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Poets, English
1800-1899
Electronic books.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The missing playground
  • Fantastic sportiveness
  • Dances of the intellect and emotions
  • Coleridge and Mackintosh : revisionary poet and simpering 'dungfly'
  • Nature, poetry, and the vicissitudes of love
  • Coleridge, Tom Wedgwood, and conceptions of the mind
  • Wordsworthian naturalism and the Coleridgean sublime
  • Public journalism, private affections
  • Politics, principle, and The friend
  • Fascinations of the esoteric
  • The poet as critic, critic as poet
  • Shakespeare's plays of passion
  • Mental energies, ancient and modern
  • Interinvolving guilt and innocence
  • Lucency and florescences
  • Questioning closure
  • 'Obstinate in resurrection'