Coleridge was interested in the psychology of artistic creativity and was dissatisfied with the empiricist idea that the mind was merely a passive absorber of impressions. 柯?tīng)柭芍螌λ囆g(shù)創(chuàng )作的心理學(xué)很感興趣,并且對經(jīng)驗主義者認為心靈僅僅是印象的一個(gè)被動(dòng)吸收者這一思想不滿(mǎn)。