Coleridge's Play of Mind

286 Pages·2010·1.26 MB·English

by  John Beer

COLERIDGE’S PLAY OF MIND
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Coleridge’s Play
of Mind
JOHN BEER
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Contents
Frontispiece ii
Abbreviations vii
Introduction xi
1. TheMissingPlayground 1
2. FantasticSportiveness 8
3. DancesoftheIntellectandEmotions 21
4. ColeridgeandMackintosh:RevisionaryPoetand
Simpering‘Dungfly’ 39
5. Nature,Poetry,andtheVicissitudesofLove 53
6. Coleridge,TomWedgwood,andConceptions
oftheMind 68
7. WordsworthianNaturalismandtheColeridgean
Sublime 82
8. PublicJournalism,PrivateAffections 102
9. Politics,Principle,andTheFriend 113
10. FascinationsoftheEsoteric 127
11. ThePoetasCritic,CriticasPoet 145
12. Shakespeare’sPlaysofPassion 159
13. MentalEnergies,AncientandModern 172
14. InterinvolvingGuiltandInnocence 187
15. LucencyandFlorescences 203
16. QuestioningClosure 223
17. ‘ObstinateinResurrection’ 238
Bibliography 257
Index 261
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Abbreviations
BK Blake: Complete Writings, with variant readings, ed.
G. Keynes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; reprinted
with additions and corrections in the Oxford Standard
Authorsseries,1966).
CAR Coleridge,AidstoReflection[1825],ed.JohnBeer,CC9
(Princeton,N.J.andLondon,1993).
CBL Coleridge,BiographiaLiteraria[1817],eds.JamesEngell
and Walter Jackson Bate, CC 7 (2 vols., Princeton, N.J.
andLondon,1983).
CBL(1907) Coleridge,BiographiaLiteraria[1817],ed.JohnShawcross
(2vols.,Oxford:ClarendonPress,1907).
CC TheCollectedWorksofSamuelTaylorColeridge,generaled.
Kathleen Coburn, associate ed. Bart Winer (16 vols.,
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, and
London:Routledge&KeganPaul,1969–2002).
CCL The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle,
general ed. Charles Richard Sanders (Durham, N.C.:
Duke University Press, 1970– ).
CF(1809) Coleridge,TheFriend(28parts,printedandpublishedby
J.Brown,andsoldbyMessrs.LongmanandCo.,1809–10).
CFriend Coleridge,TheFriend[1809–18],ed.BarbaraRooke,CC
4(2vols.,Princeton,N.J.andLondon,1969).
CH Coleridge: The Critical Heritage, ed. J. R. De J. Jackson
(2 vols., London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970–91).
CL Coleridge, Collected Letters, ed. E.L. Griggs (6 vols.,
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956–71).
CLects(1795) Coleridge,Lectures1795:OnPoliticsandReligion,ed.Lewis
Patton and Peter Mann, CC 1 (Princeton, N.J. and
London,1971).
CLects(1808–19) Coleridge, Lectures 1808–1819: On Literature, ed.
R.A.Foakes,CC5(2vols.,Princeton,N.J.andLondon,
1987).
viii Abbreviations
CLects(1818–19) Coleridge,Lectures1818–1819:OntheHistoryofPhilosophy,
ed.J.R.DeJ.Jackson,CC 8(2vols.,Princeton,N.J.and
London,2000).
CLR Coleridge,LiteraryRemains,ed.H.N.Coleridge(4vols.,
London:Pickering,1834–6).
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CC12(6vols.,Princeton,N.J.andLondon,1980–2001).
CN Coleridge,Notebooks,eds.KathleenCoburnandAnthony
John Harding (5 vols. in 10, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
UniversityPress,andLondon:Routledge&KeganPaul,
1959–2002).
CNB Coleridge’s MS Notebooks, in the British Library and
elsewhere.
COM Coleridge,OpusMaximum,ed.ThomasMcFarland,assisted
by Nicholas Halmi, CC 15 (Princeton, N.J. and London,
2002).
CPL(1949) ThePhilosophicalLectures,HithertoUnpublished,ofSamuel
Taylor Coleridge, ed. Kathleen Coburn (London: Pilot
Press,1949).
CPW(Beer) Coleridge, Poems, ed. J. B. Beer, new edn., Everyman’s
Library (London: David Campbell Publishers Ltd. and
Random House (UK), 2000).
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of6)vols.,Princeton,N.J.andLondon,2001).
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912).
CShC Coleridge’sShakespeareanCriticism,ed.T.M.Raysor[1936];
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andNewYork:E.P.Dutton,1960).
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and J. R. De J. Jackson, CC 11 (2 vols., Princeton, N.J.
andLondon,1995).
CTalker ColeridgetheTalker:ASeriesofContemporaryDescriptions
and Comments, eds. Richard W. Armour and Raymond
F.Howes(Ithaca,N.Y.:CornellUniversityPress,1940).
CTT Coleridge,TableTalk[1835],ed.CarlWoodring,CC14
(2vols.,Princeton,N.J.andLondon,1990).
Abbreviations ix
CWatchman Coleridge,TheWatchman[1796],ed.LewisPatton,CC
2(Princeton,N.J.andLondon,1970).
DQW TheCollectedWritingsofThomasDeQuincey,ed.D.Masson
(14vols.,Edinburgh,1889).
DWJ Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, ed. E. de Selincourt
(2vols.,Oxford:ClarendonPress,1941).
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E. J. Morley (3 vols., London: J. M. Dent and Sons,
Ltd.,1938).
HW The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe,
after the edition of A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover
(21 vols., London: J. M. Dent, 1930–4).
KL LettersofJohnKeats,1814–1821,ed.H.E.Rollins(2vols.,
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1970).
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London:J.M.Dent&SonsLtd.,Methuen&Co.Ltd.,
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PMLA PublicationsoftheModernLanguageAssociation.
RX John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu (London:
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TLS TimesLiterarySupplement.
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