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Article: Coleridge: Historian of Ideas. (book reviews)
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By Charles De Paolo. Victoria, B.C.: English Literary Studies No. 54, University of Victoria Press, 1992. 110 pages.
This compact monograph attempts to indicate "the interrelationship between Coleridge's theological and historical thought." The work is divided into ten chapters, several providing brief accounts of early Christian and medieval speculations about God's plan for human history. Chapter 3, "The Chiliastic Verse," refers to poems Coleridge wrote in response to the apocalyptic hopes occasioned by the poet's response to the early days of the French Revolution, 1794-1800. Charles De Paolo assumes that any chiliastic pattern, however anti-clerical, can be ...