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Sublime Coleridge focuses on the role of the Opus Maximum in explaining Samuel Taylor Coleridge´s ideas about religion, psychology, and the sublime. This book is an introduction, a reader´s guide, and an interpretation of this central text in British Romanticism.

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List of Tables List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Opus Maximum: Contexts Reading ´Will´: A Primer for the Opus Maximum ´Divine Ideas´ and Coleridge´s Two Rhetorics of ´Idea´ Human Subjects in the Opus Maximum Arguing for the Trinity: Rhetoric and the ´Divine Tetractys´ The Opus Maximum and Coleridge´s Sublime Appendix: Location in Sublime Coleridge of Summaries of Each Section of Opus Maximum Works Cited

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´Sublime Coleridge is the first comprehensive study of the Opus Maximum, those surviving fragments of what Coleridge considered to be ´the principal Labour´ and ´great Object´ of his intellectual life. Focusing on key concepts in the Opus Maximum the will, divine ideas, the Trinity, the self, the sublime Evans carefully explicates the internal development of Coleridge´s argument and knowledgeably relates that argument to the larger body of Coleridge´s writings, both in prose and in verse. Sublime Coleridge will be welcomed not only by Coleridgeans but by all those interested in nineteenth-century British religious thought.´ - Nicholas Halmi, University of Oxford

´The unfinished and only recently published Opus Maximum is the most difficult of Coleridge´s works but it was in his view the most important. The first sustained analysis, Sublime Coleridge provides a welcome guide to its key concepts and rhetorical strategies, together with a thoughtful account of its relationship to other Coleridgean texts.´ - H. J. Jackson, University of Toronto

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Murray J. Evans is a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg.

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