Poetry realized in nature : Samuel Taylor Coleridge and early nineteenth-century science
Poetry Realized in Nature shows Coleridge's method at work and, more generally, explores German philosophical science, Naturphilosophie, and the relations between science and romantic thought. It combines a biographical approach with intellectual history, reconstructing Coleridge's imaginative enterprise across the whole range of the physical and life sciences.
History
285 pages ; 23 cm
9780521524902, 0521524903
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Preface; Introduction: nature and mind; 1. Early years: from Hartley to Davy; 2. Surgeons, chemists and animal chemists: Coleridge's productive middle years from the Biographia literaria to Aids to reflection; 3. Two visions of the world: Coleridge, natural philosophy, and the philosophy of nature; 4. Coleridge and metascience: approaches to nature and schemes of the sciences; 5. The construction of the world: genesis, cosmology and general physics; 6. Geology and chemistry: the inward powers of matter; 7. Life: crown and culmination; Notes; Index.
Originally published: 1981