Long celebrated as a great aesthetic idealist and champion of the
imagination, Coleridge is now beginning to be understood as a
literary critic with many other dimensions, with exciting and
far-reaching insights into language, and with detailed notions
about the psychological, historical, and linguistic demands of the
literary experience.
In this study, Timothy Corrigan sees Coleridge's criticism as
"the product of an actively self-conscious reader, of a precise
user of language, and, most of all, of a historical man involved
with the demands of his day." Specifically he studies the
relationship between the language of Coleridge's criticism and his
interests in politics, psychology, science, and theology.
Corrigan concludes that Coleridge's work is not a closed and
strictly defined system but an extraordinarily diverse one that
responds sympathetically to new angles of research. His study is
first and foremost an investigation of Coleridge's criticism based
on Coleridge's own ideas about language and reading. While taking
its particular direction from a variety of contemporary literary
theories, the book is most concerned with how Coleridge's critical
prose and theoretical positions anticipate these in an
exceptionally complex way.
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