Coleridge and the Armoury of the Human Mind: Essays on his Prose Writings [Paperback]

First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic literature on the subject of his prose. They range from broad appraisals of Coleridges own critical practises; demonstrations of the fecundity of his autobiography, the Biographia Literaria, for contemporaries; the effect of Milton and the radical polemicists of the English Civil War on Coleridges early political and religious dissent; and the influence of the Hebrew prophetic tradition in his move away from the conjectural millenarianism of his youth towards the interpretation of Prophecy and a symbolic narrative.

Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction Peter J. Kitson and Thomas N. Corns Coleridge as Critic John Beer Coleridges Notebook Scribblings Kathleen Wheeler The Electric Fluid of Truth : The Ideology of the Commmonwealthsman in Coleridges The Plot Discovered Coleridge, Kabbalah, and the Book of Daniel Tim Fulford Murdering Ones Double : De Quinceys Confessions of an English Opium Eater and S.T. Coleridges Biographia Literaria Nigel Leask To Make a Bull : Autiobiography, Idealism and Writing in Coleridges Biographia Literaria Steven Vine Coleridge against Romantic Autobiography: Charles Lambs Letter of Elia to Robert Southey William Ruddick

First published in 1991, this book collects a broad array of path-finding scholarship by specialists in Coleridge and Romantic literature on the subject of his prose. They range from broad appraisals of Coleridges own critical practises; demonstrations of the fecundity of his autobiography, the Biographia Literaria, for contemporaries; the effect of Milton and the radical polemicists of the English Civil War on Coleridges early political and religious dissent; and the influence of the Hebrew prophetic tradition in lSº