Introduction: Romantic tragedy and tragic romanticism -- Coleridge's tragic influences -- Hamartia and suffering in the poetical works -- The Daemon -- The Pharmakon and the Pharmakos -- The catastrophes of real life -- Tragic dissent -- Conservative tragedy -- The tragic "impulse": fragments and Coleridge's forms of incompletion -- Synecdoche and tragic fragments -- The success of fragments -- The lear vocation: Coleridge and romantic theatre -- Hamlet vocations -- Romance form and the tragic vision -- The tragic sage -- The model sage and the doomed prophet -- The tiresian triad: sibylline leaves, biographia literaria and the statesman's manual -- Failed sacrifices and the un-tragic Coleridge -- A smack of Prometheus: the peril of the thinker -- Prometheus lost -- Conclusion: "The sage, the poet, lives for all mankind".
