Table of Contents

Foreword - the metaphysical implosion. Part 1 Paradise and paradigm 1787-1794: that other eye; the sublime track. Part 2 The nature of the sublime: the ugly and the beautifu; the book of nature; nature as landscape; the nature of the sublime. Part 3 The inner light 1798-1800: the inner expansion; an ebbing and a flowing mind; introspection is retrospection; the mind of man; there is creation in the eye; the time of unrememberable being; the beatings of the hearth; the sublime pattern of experience; the starting; place of being fair; throwback; two consciousnesses; that false secondary power; an obscure sense of possible sublimity; an auxiliar light; the uncertain heaven. Part 4 The light that never was 1800-1805: poetry's "Perpetuum Moblie"; the poetics of the sublime; internal brightness; the child of the father is a man; the genealogical inversion; from phenomenal to spiritual nature; the revision of "The Prelude"; the moving soul; a correspondent mild creatine breeze; breathings for incommunable powers; acknowledging dependency sublime; imagination restored; the perfect image of a mighty mind; of female softness shall this life be full; the light that never was.