Coleridge's Writings: On the Sublime [Hardcover]

This new volume demonstrates the extent and diversity of Coleridge's writings on the sublime. It highlights the development of his aesthetic of transcendence from an initial emphasis on the infinite progressiveness of humanity, through a fascination with landscape as half-revealing the infinite forces underlying it, and with literature as producing a similar feeling of the inexpressible, to an increasing emphasis on contemplating the ineffable nature of God, as well as the transcendent power of Reason or spiritual insight.Acknowledgements Symbols and Abbreviations Introduction 'These soul-ennobling views': Enlightenment and Sublimity in Coleridge's Early Writings 'A stirring and inquietude of Fancy': Coleridge and the Sublimity of Landscape 'A grand feeling of the unimaginable': Transcendence in Literature and the Visual Arts 'That life-ebullient stream': Coleridge and Romantic Psychology 'An intuitive beholding': Aspects of the Sublime in Coleridge's Religious Thought Notes Bibliography IndexDAVID VALLINS is a Lecturer in English at Hiroshima University, Japan, and has previously taught at universities in Britain and Hong Kong. His publications include Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), and articles on Akenside, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, R.W. Emerson and Virginia Woolf.