A. C. GOODSON is Professor of English, and Director of the Program in Comparative Literature, Michigan State University. His publications include Verbal Imagination: Coleridge and the Language of Modern Criticism (Oxford UP, 1988).

• Foreword by John Beer Preface List of Abbreviations Coleridge's Life Introduction The Language of Politics Language and Culture Sacred Fire: The Language of Poetry The Theory of Language Words are Things: Etymology and Desynonymy Organ of Language Notes Select Bibliography Index

A. C. GOODSON is Professor of English, and Director of the Program in Comparative Literature, Michigan State University. His publications include Verbal Imagination: Coleridge and the Language of Modern Criticism (Oxford UP, 1988).

• Foreword by John Beer Preface List of Abbreviations Coleridge's Life Introduction The Language of Politics Language and Culture Sacred Fire: The Language of Poetry The Theory of Language Words are Things: Etymology and Desynonymy Organ of Language Notes Select Bibliography Index

A. C. GOODSON is Professor of English, and Director of the Program in Comparative Literature, Michigan State University. His publications include Verbal Imagination: Coleridge and the Language of Modern Criticism (Oxford UP, 1988).

• Foreword by John Beer Preface List of Abbreviations Coleridge's Life Introduction The Language of Politics Language and Culture Sacred Fire: The Language of Poetry The Theory of Language Words are Things: Etymology and Desynonymy Organ of Language Notes Select Bibliography Index