Commentators of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (1817) have to a large degree been divided between adulation and contempt — between awestruck admiration for the way in which the work lays the foundations of a philosophically informed criticism, on the one hand, and scathing criticism of how those same foundations are borrowed, and at times simply stolen, from earlier German sources, on the other.¹ What seems to have not been fully comprehended, though, is how Coleridge displaces and selects from those German precedents. This displacement is related to his gradual transition from pantheism to a relatively dogmatic form of Christianity — a transition authoritatively explored by Thomas McFarland.² But other displacements have been ignored. In this chapter I will home in on one in particular, by providing an elucidation of how Coleridge largely suppresses the radical consequences of the organicism of German idealism.