Examining a range of Coleridge’s writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry.
Table of Content
Preface 1. Feeling, Reason, Thought and Language 2. ‘Something One and Indivisible’ 3. ‘The Greenland Wizard’ 4. ‘The Whole Soul of Man’ 5. The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere 6. Kubla Khan 7. Christabel 8. Conclusion: Transformation and Evolution Bibliography Index
About the author
David Ward, now retired, was a Lecturer in English at the Universities of Warwick and Dundee. He has also taught at the University of Natal, Mac Gill University and the University of Malaya. His publications include T S Eliot, Between Two Worlds (1973); Jonathan Swift: An Introductory Essay (1973); Chronicles of Darkness (1989), as well as articles in Essays in Criticism, Delta, The London Magazine, Modern Language Review and Shakespeare Quarterly.
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