Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10
Note on Texts and Short Titles......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
1 The Willing Daemon: Coleridge and the Transnatural......Page 22
2 “Pagan Philosophy” and the “Pride of Speculation”: Spiritual Politics and the Metaphysical Imagination, 1795–1797......Page 32
3 “Not a Man, But a Monster”: Organicism, Becoming, and the Daemonic Imago......Page 50
4 Transnatural Language: The “Library-Cormorant” in the “Vernal Wood”......Page 84
5 “The Dark Green Adder’s Tongue”: Osorio and the “Poetry of Nature”......Page 114
6 “A Distinct Current of My Own”: Poetry and the Uses of the Supernatural......Page 150
7 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”......Page 178
8 “Kubla Khan”......Page 198
9 “Christabel”......Page 216
Notes......Page 236
Bibliography......Page 258
Index......Page 270