Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgements vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Eighteenth Century Tradition of Nature Poetry 13
6. 2. The Traditional Character of Coleridge’s Early Poetry 25
7. 3. The 1796 Poems and their Philosophical Background 33
8. 4. Coleridge and Wordsworth in 1797; Their Interest in Evil and Alienation 55
9. 5. Alienation Reconsidered: ‘The Ancient Mariner’ 65
10. 6. ‘Frost at Midnight’: A Companion Piece to ‘The Ancient Mariner’ 95
11. 7. A Brief Survey of Continental Ideas on Man and Nature 103
12. 8. A Movement Away From Empiricism, Towards the ‘one Life’ Idea: 1799–1803 117
13. 9. The ‘one Life’ and Alienation: ‘Dejection: an Ode’ 133
14. 10. ‘Kubla Khan’ and its Ideational Resemblance to ‘Dejection: an Ode’ 147
15. 11. Reality and Dream: Romantic Irony in ‘The Picture’ 153
16. Conclusion 169
17. Notes 173
18. Bibliography 203
19. Index 209
20. Index of Coleridge’s works 213