Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-202) and index.
Contents
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.