1st Edition

Coleridge and the Armoury of the Human Mind Essays on his Prose Writings

Edited By Peter J. Kitson, Thomas N. Corns Copyright 1991
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic literature on the subject of his prose. They range from broad appraisals of Coleridge’s own critical practises; demonstrations of the fecundity of his autobiography, the Biographia Literaria, for contemporaries; the effect of Milton and the radical polemicists of the... Read more

Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction Peter J. Kitson and Thomas N. Corns Coleridge as Critic John Beer Coleridge’s Notebook Scribblings Kathleen Wheeler "The Electric Fluid of Truth": The Ideology of the Commmonwealthsman in Coleridge’s The Plot Discovered Coleridge, Kabbalah, and the Book of Daniel Tim Fulford "Murdering One’s Double": De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater and S.T. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria Nigel Leask To "Make a Bull": Autiobiography, Idealism and Writing in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria Steven Vine Coleridge against Romantic Autobiography: Charles Lamb’s "Letter of Elia to Robert Southey" William Ruddick

Biography

Peter J. Kitson, Thomas N. Corns