Coleridge, Language and the Sublime

1. Introduction
Christopher Stokes

Part I. Language, Longinus, Emotion

2. ‘Violently Agitated by a Real Passion’: Longinus and Coleridge’s Effusions
Christopher Stokes

3. ‘The Self-Watching Subtilizing Mind’: the Impassioned Self in the 1798 Fears in Solitude Quarto
Christopher Stokes

Part II. Terror, Burke, Ethics

4. ‘Cruel Wrongs and Strange Distress’: an Ethical Terror-Sublime in ‘The Destiny of Nations’
Christopher Stokes

5. ‘My Soul in Agony’: the Terrors of Subjectivity in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
Christopher Stokes

Part III. Representation, Kant, Theology

6. ‘Ye signs and wonders of the element! Utter forth God’: Divine Presence and Divine Withdrawal in the Natural Sublime
Christopher Stokes

7. ‘What never is but only is to be’: the Ontology of the Coleridgean Sublime
Christopher Stokes

8. ‘A Specimen of the Sublime dashed to pieces’: Sublimity in the Biographia Literaria and the Limbo Constellation
Christopher Stokes

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Metaphysics