The Power of the Eye in Coleridge (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Power of the Eye in Coleridge For an understanding of his poetry, it seems advantageous to turn from his own later stud ies, however extended, to the general interest in mesmerism evinced by the contemporaries of Coleridge during the formative period of his boyhood and youth. This interest was lively on the Continent, because of the vogue of Mes mer and his immediate disciples (his paper on the discovery of magnetism having been pub lished in and because cf the stir aroused by the commissions appointed in France to inquire into the validity of his pretensions, 25 and it was lively in England shortly after, for example at London and Bristol, through the vogue of mesmerists like the celebrated Dr. John Bell and Dr. J. B. De Mainauduc 2 This latter personage left an extraordinary reputa tion at Bristol, so that Coleridge should ulti mately have heard about him there, though it seems probable that he must have known some thing of the great magnetizer while a schoolboy at Christ's Hospital in London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.