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Coleridge, language and the sublime

This is the first extensive study analysing the sublime in Coleridge's work. Conceptually, it ranges across three major traditions (Longinus, Burke, Kant) as well as modern philosophy of the sublime. The argument, which builds across seven chapters, posits a complex, 'double-edged' sublimity implicating both transcendence and finitude. Such a thesis could only be articulated across a full monograph length study. The research required study of nearly all Coleridge primary material (poetry, prose, letters, notebooks) and examples are drawn from the full range of his oeuvre (early poetry, 1790s canonical verse, late poems, Biographia, minor prose).