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Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Frontispiece
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Coleridge Walks: The Measure of the Landscape
Part One: Walking
A Culture of Walking
Coleridge Walks
Part Two: ''every man [is] his own path-maker''
Part Three: A Landscape in Motion
Extended Motion
Part Four: Feet and the Measure of the Landscape
A Physical Presence
The Pace and Tread of His Feet
Coleridge the Surveyor
Coleridge's Boots
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Lines of Motion
''The endless endless lines of motion''
Line and the Translation of George Beaumont's Landscapes
The Context
A Geometric Footing
Chapter 3 A Geometric Frame of Mind
Geometridae
Part One: A Euclidean Culture
Christ's Hospital School (1782-1791)
The University of Cambridge
Part Two: Quod erat demonstrandum
Part Three: A Temper of Mind
Attention, Abstraction, and Intuition
Part Four: Entangled Moments
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Ars Poetica
The Tread and Feel of His Feet: The Peripatetic Rhythms of His Verse
The Lineal
A Geometric Frame of Mind
The Brown Linnets, the Serpent, the Spider, the Flies, the Snake, and the Rook
Chapter 5 Youth and Age: Coleridge and the Shifting Paradigm of Geometric Thought
Part One: Youth and Age
Part Two: A Sustaining Paradigm
Part Three: The Euclid Debate
Euclid and His Modern Rivals
Part Four: Coleridge and the Alternate Paradigms
Coleridge and the Geometry of Visibles
Coleridge and the Curvature of Space
Conclusion: A Wild Geometry
Afterword: An Organic Geometry
Bibliography
Index
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Frontispiece
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Coleridge Walks: The Measure of the Landscape
Part One: Walking
A Culture of Walking
Coleridge Walks
Part Two: ''every man [is] his own path-maker''
Part Three: A Landscape in Motion
Extended Motion
Part Four: Feet and the Measure of the Landscape
A Physical Presence
The Pace and Tread of His Feet
Coleridge the Surveyor
Coleridge's Boots
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Lines of Motion
''The endless endless lines of motion''
Line and the Translation of George Beaumont's Landscapes
The Context
A Geometric Footing
Chapter 3 A Geometric Frame of Mind
Geometridae
Part One: A Euclidean Culture
Christ's Hospital School (1782-1791)
The University of Cambridge
Part Two: Quod erat demonstrandum
Part Three: A Temper of Mind
Attention, Abstraction, and Intuition
Part Four: Entangled Moments
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Ars Poetica
The Tread and Feel of His Feet: The Peripatetic Rhythms of His Verse
The Lineal
A Geometric Frame of Mind
The Brown Linnets, the Serpent, the Spider, the Flies, the Snake, and the Rook
Chapter 5 Youth and Age: Coleridge and the Shifting Paradigm of Geometric Thought
Part One: Youth and Age
Part Two: A Sustaining Paradigm
Part Three: The Euclid Debate
Euclid and His Modern Rivals
Part Four: Coleridge and the Alternate Paradigms
Coleridge and the Geometry of Visibles
Coleridge and the Curvature of Space
Conclusion: A Wild Geometry
Afterword: An Organic Geometry
Bibliography
Index