Coleridge on Dreaming: Romanticism, Dreams and the Medical by Jennifer Ford

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By Jennifer Ford

This ebook is the 1st research of Coleridge's responses to his goals and to debates at the nature of dreaming between poets, philosophers and scientists within the Romantic interval. Coleridge wrote and skim generally at the topic, yet his assorted and unique rules have hitherto acquired little recognition. keeping off basically biographical or psychoanalytic methods, Jennifer Ford unearths as an alternative a wealthy old context for the ways that the main mysterious workings of the Romantic mind's eye have been explored and understood.

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