' Dr Schaffer's own erudition and her intellectual grasp and clarity are both great. She is one of those rare scholars who can, simultaneously, not only see both the wood and the trees, but point them out to others, offering an aerial perspective, a neat sketch, a botanical analysis, a map and a hint of poetical vision at the same time.' The New Review

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Fall of Jerusalem: Coleridge's unwritten epic; 2. The visionary character: revelation and the lyrical ballad; 3. The oriental idyll; 4. Hölderlin's 'Patmos' ode and 'Kubla Khan': mythological doubling; 5. Browning's St John: the casuistry of the higher criticism; 6. Daniel Deronda and the conventions of fiction; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

' Dr Schaffer's own erudition and her intellectual grasp and clarity are both great. She is one of those rare scholars who can, simultaneously, not only see both the wood and the trees, but point them out to others, offering an aerial perspective, a neat sketch, a botanical analysis, a map and a hint of poetical vision at the same time.' The New Review

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Fall of Jerusalem: Coleridge's unwritten epic; 2. The visionary character: revelation and the lyrical ballad; 3. The oriental idyll; 4. Hölderlin's 'Patmos' ode and 'Kubla Khan': mythological doubling; 5. Browning's St John: the casuistry of the higher criticism; 6. Daniel Deronda and the conventions of fiction; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.