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Courtesy of the National Gallery.  \nColeridge’s Play of Mind  \nJOHN BEER  \n1  \n3  \nGreat Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York  \nAuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in  \nArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam  \nOxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \nPublished in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York  \n\\# John Beer 2010  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker)  \nFirst published 2010  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above  \nYou must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data  \nData available  \nTypeset by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain  \non acid-free paper by  \nthe MPG Books Group  \nISBN 978–0–19–957401–8  \n1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2  \nContents  \nFrontispiece ii  \nAbbreviations vii  \nIntroduction xi  \n1. The Missing Playground 1  \n2. Fantastic Sportiveness 8  \n3. Dances of the Intellect and Emotions 21  \n4. Coleridge and Mackintosh: Revisionary Poet and  \nSimpering ‘Dungfly’ 39  \n5. Nature, Poetry, and the Vicissitudes of Love 53  \n6. Coleridge, Tom Wedgwood, and Conceptions  \nof the Mind 68  \n7. Wordsworthian Naturalism and the Coleridgean  \nSublime 82  \n8. Public Journalism, Private Affections 102  \n9. Politics, Principle, and The Friend 113  \n10. Fascinations of the Esoteric 127  \n11. The Poet as Critic, Critic as Poet 145  \n12. Shakespeare’s Plays of Passion 159  \n13. Mental Energies, Ancient and Modern 172  \n14. Interinvolving Guilt and Innocence 187  \n15. Lucency and Florescences 203  \n16. Questioning Closure 223  \n17. ‘Obstinate in Resurrection’ 238  \nBibliography 257  \nIndex 261  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nAbbreviations  \nBK Blake: Complete Writings, with variant readings, ed.  \nG. Keynes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; reprinted with additions and corrections in the Oxford Standard Authors series, 1966) .  \nCAR Coleridge, Aids to Reflection [1825], ed. John Beer, CC 9  \n(Princeton, N.J. and London, 1993) .  \nCBL Coleridge, Biographia Literaria [1817], eds. James Engell  \nand Walter Jackson Bate, CC 7 (2 vols., Princeton, N.J. and London, 1983) .  \nCBL (1907) Coleridge, Biographia Literaria [1817], ed. John Shawcross  \n(2 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907) .  \nCC The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, general ed.  \nKathleen Coburn, associate ed. Bart Winer (16 vols., Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, and  \nLondon: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969–2002) .  \nCCL The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle,  \ngeneral ed. Charles Richard Sanders (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970–) .  \nCF (1809) Coleridge, The Friend (28 parts, printed and published by  \nJ. Brown, and sold by Messrs. Longman and Co., 1809–10).  \nCFriend Coleridge, The Friend [1809–18], ed. 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