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 Coleridge's accounts of the imagination, perception, poetic creativity and literary criticism, it draws a systematic and coherent 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 his own poetic output.

Explains the connection between Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work and Husserl's project of transcendental phenomenology Ground's Coleridge's work in a philosophical context Offers a depiction of Coleridge as a valuable philosophical thinker

Autorentext

Tom Marshall was awarded his PhD in 2019. He has previously held positions at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, and at the University of East Anglia, UK. He has published in European Romantic Review and Essays in Romanticism.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Anti-psychologism and Ideal Laws in Biographia I.-3. Coleridge's phenomenological engagements with idealism.- 4. Imagination and Intentionality.- 5. Coleridge's Epoché.- 6.'The acts of the mind itself': Eidetic Intuition and the 'Conversation Poems'.