Coleridge's figurative language

Abstract

Part 1 Spiritual politics: the sense of self in speech and writing spiritual families - pantisocracy and lectures radical writing and political allusions Coleridge and Horne Tooke authority in words - Tooke and poetry poetry, puns and parody - Coleridge's newspaper contributions Coleridge's punning signatures spiritual poetry - puns and the invocation of an audience. Part 2 Poetry's eternal language: superstition and materialism seraphic visions Coleridge as poetic father poetic community :Frost at Midnight. Part 3 Poetry of isolation: The Ancient Mariner Christabel dejection poetic inscription. Part 4 Private mythology and Hebrew tradition: biblical poetry and Coleridgean theory Sara symbolism codes and cyphers. Part 5 Lectures and publications: collaboration and plagiarism Kant the Irish bull forgetting a name pun and conceit Johnson and Shakespeare Biographia Literaria. Part 6 Philosophy, religion and symbolism: the sage of Highgate Marginalia Marginalia and notes - Kabbalah and symbolism Coleridge's public theory of symbolism theoretical coherence traditional authority spiritual education - the clerisy in Church and State the final pun contemporary relevance.