On Religion and Psychology [Hardcover]

Of all the wide-ranging interests Coleridge showed in his career, religion was the deepest and most long lasting, and Beer demonstrates in this book how none of this work can be fully understood without taking this into account. Beer also reveals how Coleridge was preoccupied by the life of the mind and how closely this subject was intertwined with religion in his thinking.Foreword List of Abbreviations Coleridge's Life Introduction The Early Intellect Quest A Religion of Life? Self-Examinings Psychological Speculations The Existence and Nature of God Questions of Evil and the Will 'Science Freedom and the Truth...' Original Sin and the True Reason Doctrines and Illuminations Other Faiths Conclusions Notes Index

'Beer's judicious use of the Letters and the Notebooks -the predominant sources for the selections-provides precisely the style and tone required for a fresh evaluation of Coleridge's religious thought.' - Jeffrey W. Barbeau

John Beer is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. His work on Romanticism includes Coleridge the Visionary, Coleridge's Poetic Intelligence, Blake's Humanism, Blake's Visionary Universe, Wordsworth and the Human Heart, Wordsworth in Time, Questioning Romanticism (ed.), Romantic Influences and Providence and Love. He has edited Coleridge's Poems for Everyman's Library, his Aids to Reflection for the Collected Works and is General Editor of the series Coleridge's Writings.