Read e-book online The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Notebooks PDF

By Merton Christensen,Kathleen Coburn

ISBN-10: 041528399X

ISBN-13: 9780415283991

in the course of his grownup existence till his dying in 1834, Coleridge made entries in additional than sixty notebooks. Neither typical books nor diaries, yet whatever of either, they include notes on literary, theological, philosophical, clinical, social, and mental issues, plans for and fragments of works, and lots of different goods of serious curiosity. This fourth double quantity of the Notebooks covers the years 1819 to 1826. the variety of Coleridge's analyzing, his unending wondering, and his recondite resources proceed to fascinate the reader. incorporated listed here are drafts and entire types of the later poems. Many passages replicate the theological pursuits that ended in Coleridge's writing of Aids to Reflection, later to turn into an enormous resource for the transcendentalists.

one other improvement during this quantity is the startling growth of Coleridge's curiosity in 'the concept of existence' and in chemistry - the laboratory chemistry of the Royal Institute and the theoretical chemistry of German transcendentalists corresponding to Oken, Steffens, and Oersted.

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The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Notebooks 1819-1826: 1819-26 Vol 4 by Merton Christensen,Kathleen Coburn


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