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. Coleridge strove for coherence in all realms of thought, and so the ways in which he explored scientific ideas illuminate all aspects of his inquiring spirit. He sought self-knowledge, which required a knowledge of man and mind in relation to nature and God. There was, accordingly, an intimate relationship between his theology and philosophy, and his ideas about the natural world. Science functioned as a touchstone in his philosophy, thus indirectly reinforcing his theology. The ideas he derived from science also bore directly on his critical doctrines, including the theory of imagination.
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Establishes the fundamental importance of science in Coleridge's intellectual development, showing how it served as a source of imaginative insight. Offers a case study of the interactions between Romanticism and science.
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In a recent review of a book on Frankenstein and the sciences, the historian of physics, Iwan Morus, commented that the fact that no one in that book cited Levere meant that the scholarship was basically wholly unsound. He has a point. This book is a milestone in the history of science and Romanticism, and it subtly demonstrates how chemistry infected Coleridge's thought in ways that one would not expect.
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- Biographia Literaria: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions (v. 7) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 12 pages
- Biographia Literaria by Taylor Samuel Coleridge on 12 pages
- The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 9 : Aids to Reflection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 7 pages
- The Botanic Garden: The Loves of the Plants by Erasmus Darwin on 7 pages
- The Philosophy Of Nature by Georg Hegel on 7 pages
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- Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Janis McLarren Caldwell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Instruments and the Imagination by Thomas L. Hankins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolutions in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism (The Nineteenth Century) by Martin Wallen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860 by Professor Ann B. Shteir in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Coleridge's Writings: On the Sublime by David Vallins in Back Matter
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