Aesthetics, Poetics and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This book re-evaluates the philosophical status of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by providing an extended comparison between his work and the phenomenological theory of Edmund Husserl. Examining Coleridges accounts of the imagination, perception, poetic creativity and literary criticism, it draws a systematic and coherent structure out of a range of Coleridges philosophical writing. In addition, it also applies the principles of Coleridges philosophy to an interpretation of his own poetic output.