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Article: Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism: Feeling and Thought.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 2002
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Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism: Feeling and Thought. By David Vallins. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xii + 221 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].
This is a book about Coleridge's modes of thinking, so although it begins from his interest in psychology, it is at least as much concerned with the nature of his philosophy. The first chapter, headed `Poetry and Philosophy', develops in relation to Schelling on the one hand, and `Kubla Khan' on the other, the central thesis of the book, namely that feeling and thought are not separable in Coleridge's writings, and that `what claim to be rational arguments are often dependent on ...