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" Coleridge and the daemonic imagination / "
Gregory Leadbetter
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BL
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711214
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b533403
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| Main Entry
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Leadbetter, Gregory,1975-
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| Title & Author
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Coleridge and the daemonic imagination /\ Gregory Leadbetter
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011
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| Series Statement
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Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
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xiii, 274 p. ;; 22 cm
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0230103219
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: 9780230103214
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Machine generated contents note: -- The Willing Daemon: Coleridge and the Transnatural -- "Pagan Philosophy" and the "Pride of Speculation" : Spiritual Politics and the Metaphysical Imagination, 1795-1797 -- "Not a Man, But a Monster" : Organicism, Becoming and the Daemonic Imago -- Transnatural Language: The "Library-Cormorant" in the "Vernal Wood" -- "The Dark Green Adder's Tongue": Osorio and the "Poetry of Nature" -- "A Distinct Current of My Own": Poetry and the Uses of the Supernatural -- "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" -- "Kubla Khan" -- "Christabel"
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"Fascinated by his own imagination, Coleridge secretly wrote that its characteristic blend of power and desire made him a "Daemon": a being superstitiously feared as "a something transnatural." Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination examines this simultaneous experience of exaltation and transgression as a formative principle in Coleridge's poetry and the fabric of his philosophy. In a reading that spans the breadth of Coleridge's achievement, through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, this book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel." Gregory Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange, in a study that unfolds into an essay on poetry, spirituality, and the drama of human becoming"--
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"Through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: 'The Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel'. Re-reading the origins of Romanticism, Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange"--
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,1772-1834-- Criticism and interpretation
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,1772-1834-- Friends and associates
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,1772-1834-- Philosophy
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,1772-1834-- Psychology
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,1772-1834-- Religion
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Friends and associates
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Romanticism-- England
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Supernatural in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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821/.7
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PR4484.L39 2011
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