Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British
and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of
thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the
place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and
find speculations of comparable ambition. It argues that Coleridge
found his philosophical adventures in the dominant idiom of his
times exciting and as imaginatively engaging as poetry. Paul
Hamilton situates major themes in Coleridge's prose and poetic
writings in relation to his passion for German philosophy. He
argues that Coleridge's infectious attachment to German
(post-Kantian) philosophy was due to its symmetries with the
structure of his Christian belief. Coleridge is read as an excited
and winning expositor of this philosophy's power to articulate an
absolute grounding of reality. Its comprehensiveness, however,
rendered redundant further theological description, undermining the
faith it had seemed to support. Thus arose Coleridge's anxious
disguising of his German plagiarisms, aspersions cast on German
originality, and his claims to have already experienced their
insights within his own religious sensibility or in the writings of
Anglican divines and neo-Platonists. This book recovers the extent
to which his ideas call to be expanded within German philosophical
debate.
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