Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom
Walking with Euclid
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; 139;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 21 August 2025
- ISBN 9781009271745
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages214 pages
- Weight 320 g
- Language English 680
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Short description:
Ann Colley reveals how geometry, both Euclidean and non-Euclidean, channelled and shaped Coleridge's thought and his perception of nature.
MoreLong description:
When Coleridge described the landscapes he passed through while scrambling among the fells, mountains, and valleys of Britain, he did something unprecedented in Romantic writing: to capture what emerged before his eyes, he enlisted a geometric idiom. Immersed in a culture still beholden to Euclid's Elements and schooled by those who subscribed to its principles, he valued geometry both for its pragmatic function and for its role as a conduit to abstract thought. Indeed, his geometric training would often structure his observations on religion, aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. For Coleridge, however, this perspective never competed with his sensitivity to the organic nature of his surroundings but, rather, intermingled with it. Situating Coleridge's remarkable ways of seeing within the history and teaching of mathematics and alongside the eighteenth century's budding interest in non-Euclidean geometry, Ann Colley illuminates the richness of the culture of walking and the surprising potential of landscape writing.
'Given how young many of the Romantics were when they first started demonstrating remarkable language and thinking skills, it seems a wise move for scholars to investigate their education in school and university, and to consider the poets' experiences following immediately upon leaving these institutions in their critical studies. Colley's book is a fine addition to this field of study.' Catherine Ross, The Coleridge Bulletin
Table of Contents:
1. Coleridge walks: the measure of the landscape; 2. Lines of motion; 3. A geometric frame of mind; 4. Ars Poetica; 5. Youth and age: Coleridge and the shifting paradigm of geometric thought.
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