Coleridge the Visionary

De: Beer John

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OFFERED AT THIS REDUCED PRICE FOR A LIMITED PERIOD ONLY First published in 1959 by Chatto & Windus, this much-cited book throws light on the intellectual organization of Coleridge's poetry and the imaginative qualities implicit in his philosophy. John Beer's treatment of the visionary Coleridge is at the same time an informative companion to the 18th century's explorations of mythology in such works as Calmet’s Antiquities Sacred and Profane, Burnet’s Theory of the Earth, Campanella’s City of the Sun, Lowth's De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum, Maurice’s Hindostan, Bryant’s Analysis of Ancient Mythology, Grew's Cosmologia Sacra. Chapter headings: Coleridge and Romanticism; The Sense of Glory; ‘Science, Freedom and the Truth in Christ’; The Daemonic Sublime; The Glorious Sun; ‘By all the Eagle in thee, All the Dove’; The River and the Caverns; Fountain of the Sun; The Visionary Gleam. John Beer's books include Coleridge's Poetic Intelligence, Blake's Humanism, Blake's Visionary Universe, Wordsworth and the Human Heart, Wordsworth in Time, Questioning Romanticism (ed.), Romantic Consciousness: Blake to Mary Shelley, Post-Romantic Consciousness: Dickens to Sylvia Plath, Romantic Influences and William Blake: A Literary Life.