While I don't know the essay Jansy refers to on Coleridge, Leibniz and 
monism, another Borges essay is relevant: "Coleridge's Dream" includes such 
fragments as:

"Swinburne felt that what he [Coleridge] had been able to recover was the 
supreme example of music in the English language, and that the person 
capable of analysing it would be able -- the metaphor is Keats' -- to 
unravel a rainbow." Shades of Iris 8 ...

"Another classic example of unconscious cerebration is that of Robert Louis 
Stevenson, to whom -- as he himself described it in his 'Chapter on Dreams' 
-- one dream gave him the plot of Olalla and another, in 1884, the plot of 
Jekyll and Hyde."

Amusingly, the essay ends on an archetypal note.

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