Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796-1817

Author of Biographia Literaria (1817) and The Friend (1809-10, 1812 and 1818), Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the central figure in the British transmission of German idealism in the 19th century. The advent of Immanuel Kant in Coleridge''s thought is traditionally seen as the start of the poet''s turn towards an internalized Romanticism. Demonstrating that Coleridge''s discovery of Kant came at an e...