Coleridge the Visionary

Now a critical classic, Coleridge the Visionary was first published in 1959 by Chatto & Windus. This much-cited book throws light on the intellectual organisation of Coleridge's poetry and the imaginative qualities implicit in his philosophy.

John Beer's treatment of the visionary Coleridge is at the same time an informative companion to the 18th century's explorations of mythology in such works as Calmet's Antiquities Sacred and Profane, Burnet's Theory of the Earth, Campanella's City of the Sun, Lowth's De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum, Maurice's Hindostan, Bryant's Analysis of Ancient Mythology, Grew's Cosmologia Sacra.

Chapter headings

Coleridge and Romanticism
The Sense of Glory
“Science, Freedom and the Truth in Christ”
The Daemonic Sublime
The Glorious Sun
“By all the Eagle in thee, All the Dove”
The River and the Caverns
Fountain of the Sun
The Visionary Gleam