Aesthetics, Poetics and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This book re-evaluates the philosophical status of Samuel Taylor Coleridge byproviding an extended comparison between his work and the phenomenologicaltheory of Edmund Husserl. Examining Coleridge's accounts of the imagination,perception, poetic creativity and literary criticism, it draws a systematic andcoherent structure out of a range of Coleridge's philosophical writing. In addition,it also applies the principles of Coleridge's philosophy to an interpretation of hisown poetic output.