True Ecstasies and Hallucinations

...[Coleridge] once believed he could grasp the truth of things in his pantheistic ecstasies; in the daemonic poems ecstasy is still a reality, but the possibility is raised of it being profoundly misleading....Coleridge is not just afraid of loss of self in ecstasy, he is afraid of hallucination, of being wrong...



Steve R. Holmes, "Romanticism and Pantheism" (2010).

Full text: http://steverholmes.org.uk/blog/?p=346



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