Coleridge, Schiller and Aesthetic Education

'Kooy's book offers a fine, detailed analysis of the coherence between the aesthetic theories of Schiller and Coleridge. His treatment incorporates related scholarship meticulously and persuasively...[a] thorough and well-documented study which should encourage scholars to reconsider the relationship between Schiller and Coleridge.' - Janet Land, The Coleridge Bulletin



'...an elegantly and clearly written elaboration not only on the literary-historical influences that Schiller's work exerted on Coleridge, but also with a theoretical analysis of the similarities of the notion of Bildung in both.' - Angela Holzer, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts



'Michael John Kooy's Coleridge, Schiller and Aestheric Education is a model of rigor and structure: it explores a new topic, offers new information, conveys respect for both authors, indicates Colredge's knowledge of a German poet and philosopher without snickering at his indebtedness, identifies the debt and how Coleridge acknowledged it, and develops the comparisons in rational segments - love, metrics, play, the moral work of art - that apply to other areas in Romantic studies. The style is crisp, natural, and spare. In short, the book glitters.' - Anya Taylor, The Wordsworth Circle