Romantic Consciousness

John Beer is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. His work on Romanticism includes Coleridge the Visionary, Coleridge's Poetic Intelligence, Blake's Humanism, Blake's Visionary Universe, Wordsworth and the Human Heart, Wordsworth in Time, Questioning Romanticism (ed.), Romantic Influences and Providence and Love .He has edited Coleridge's Poems for Everyman's Library, his Aids to Reflection for the Collected Works and is General Editor of the series Coleridge's Writings .

Foreword Consciousness and the Mystery of Being Blakes Fear of Non-Entity Coleridge, Wordsworth and 'Unknown Modes of Being' Keats and the Highgate Nightingales De Quincey and the Dark Sublime Tennyson, the Cambridge Apostles and the Nature of 'Reality' Shelley and Byron: Polarities of Being Mary Shelley's Mediation Appendix: Wordsworth's Later Sense of Being Abbreviations Index