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Coleridge, Nature and God In Coleridge, more than any other writer from the Romantic age, we see a body of work dominated by underlying theological ideas. I will be concerned mainly with the young Coleridge and his early work; rather than discussing Coleridge's philosophical and theological ideas about the nature of things and God, I will be predominantly looking at his the more subjective facet of Coleridge's ideas, expressed in his poetry: his relationship and emotional reactions to these ideas, and more specifically, the relationship between his self, "Nature" and God. So what was Coleridge's idea of God? As a radical, in an age where politics and religion are inextricably linked, a person like Coleridge would find it difficult to accept conventional religious beliefs: "Coleridge's teachings about the nature of God were to a great extent motivated by his dislike of some eighteenth century conceptions of God."1 Coleridge was obviously a Unitarian...

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