Coleridge, Language and the Sublime

by Christopher Stokes, P.W. Kingsford

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART LANGUAGE, LONGINUS, EMOTION 'Violently Agitated by a Real Passion': Longinus and Coleridge's Effusions 'The Self-Watching Subtilizing Mind': The Impassioned Self in the 1798 Fears in Solitude Quarto PART TERROR, BURKE, ETHICS 'Cruel Wrongs and Strange Distress': An Ethical Terror-Sublime in 'The Destiny of Nations' Chapter 4: 'My Soul in Agony': The Terrors of Subjectivity in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' PART REPRESENTATION, KANT THEOLOGY 'Ye signs and wonders of the element! Utter forth God': Divine Presence and Divine Withdrawal in the Natural Sublime 'What never is but only is to be': The Ontology of the Coleridgean Sublime PART CONCLUSION 'A Specimen of the Sublime dashed to pieces': Sublimity in the Biographia Literaria and the Limbo constellation Endnotes Bibliography

227 pages, ebook

First published November 3, 2010

Reviews

[John Morley · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was a total disappointment. It seems to attack Coleridge’s romantic conception of the sublime by arguing that he is not Kantian enough for him. He is a typical fake academic clothing the lack of a true thesis with a cloud of incompressible language only rivaled by Kant’s own language.