Coleridge and the Uses of Division

Coleridge was a visionary drawn to the numinous, but he was also a spontaneous connoisseur of the sensory life. Such double-mindedness has often been criticized as a sort of incapacity; but the capability of entertaining equally necessary kinds of perception might be thought a kind of virtue. The study examines Coleridge's formative double-vision as it manifests itself in his profound self-analysis, his philosophy of mind, and his literary criticism.

Seamus Perry is a Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow.

Note on Texts and Short Titles

xi

Introduction

1

(6)

Coleridge and Division

7

(28)

Divisions and Muddles

7

(11)

Diversities and Unities

18

(6)

Coleridge the Revisionary

24

(11)

Coleridge's Visions

35

(67)

`Almost a Visionary'

35

(25)

Two Concepts of Deity

60

(18)

Organicism, Necessity, and Freedom

78

(9)

The One Life and the Antiphonal Style

87

(15)

Atoning Plurality: The Mind and the World

102

(53)

Two Godheads

102

(5)

Reclaiming Experience: Materialism and Idealism

107

(16)

The Sublime Ego and Other Things

123

(20)

Struggling to Idealise in the Conversation Poems

143

(12)

The Ethics of Imagining

155

(54)

Self-Oblivion and Self-Subsistence

155

(16)

`Union Absolute of Love'

171

(12)

Wordsworth and the Ends of Imagination

183

(17)

`Kubla Khan' and the Art of Mingling

200

(9)

Radical Differences: Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth

209

(84)

Two Rival Artists: Shakespeare and Milton

209

(24)

The Rhetoric of Reconciliation: Shakespeare

233

(13)

The Rhetoric of Reconciliation: Wordsworth in Biographia

246

(28)

Imagining Division: `Resolution and Independence'

274

(19)

Coda: The Incomprehensible Mariner

281

(12)

Index

293

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