Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Romantic Tragedy and Tragic Romanticism

1      Coleridge’s Tragic Influences

2      Hamartia and Suffering in the Poetical Works

3      The Catastrophes of Real Life

4      The Tragic ‘Impulse’: Fragments and Coleridge’s Forms of Incompletion

5      The Lear Vocation: Coleridge and Romantic Theatre

6      The Tragic Sage

7      Failed Sacrifices and the Un-Tragic Coleridge

Conclusion: ‘The sage, the poet, lives for all mankind’

Bibliography

Index