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Fascinated by his own imagination, Coleridge secretly wrote that its characteristic blend of power and desire made him a 'Daemon': a being superstitiously feared as 'a something transnatural.' Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination examines this simultaneous experience of exaltation and transgression as a formative principle in Coleridge's poetry and the fabric of his philosophy. In a reading that spans the breadth of Coleridge's achievement, through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, this book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel.' Gregory Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange, in a study that unfolds into an essay on poetry, spirituality, and the drama of human becoming.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination
• Author: Gregory Leadbetter
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 274
• EAN: 9780230103214
• ISBN: 0230103219
• ID: 04551454
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 458 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 144 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. March 2011

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