Author: D. Ward
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137362626
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 443
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Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry.
Author: D. Ward
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137362626
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry.
Author: J. Robert Barth
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400867193
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Studying the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, Father Barth shows that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy and theology. He finds symbol to be an essentially religious reality for Coleridge, one that partakes of the nature of a sacrament, especially sacrament as an encounter between material and spiritual reality. Father Barth notes that eighteenth-century poetry was by and large a poetry of metaphor rather than of symbol, a poetry of reference rather than of encounter. In close readings of the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, he shows how they practiced and developed the poetry of symbol. Finally, analyzing the symbolic imagination, the author concludes that it is a phenomenon profoundly linked with the experience of Romanticism itself and with a fundamental change in religious sensibility. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Author: John Constable
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136351094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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In the sixth volume of his Selected Works, I. A. Richards focuses on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Author: Christine Gallant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Author: Ivor Armstrong Richards
Publisher: London, Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Imagination
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Clarification of the author's first interpretation, offering additional insights into Coleridge's application of Plato's thought, in answer to the Greek philosopher's challenge to poetry. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Author: Elena Agathokleous
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 334639543X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Essay from the year 2017 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The essay deals with the recurring motifs of nature and imagination in the works of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were two of the great poets of the period of Romanticism. With a firm grasp of what writing good poetry meant they also had a vision on how it should be communicated to affect the world in becoming a more ethical and ideal place. Their work was most imaginative and so condensed that required extensive analysis and had the ability to constantly generate new meanings. Both poets shared a great admiration for nature and its enormous complexity and beauty and drew inspiration from it, transcending boundaries of plain logical perception by filtering their stimulations through the filter of their imagination. Their ambition was to create poetry that would open the eyes of the world to the marvel of life and creation thus elevating the spirit to a higher moral level and thus making the world better through their poetry.
Author: J. Robert Barth
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826214539
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Grounded in the thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romanticism and Transcendence explores the religious dimensions of imagination in the Romantic tradition, both theoretically and in the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge. J. Robert Barth suggests that we may look to Coleridge for the theoretical grounding of the view of religious imagination proposed in this book, but that it is in Wordsworth above all that we see this imagination at work. Barth first argues that the Romantic imagination--with its profound symbolic import--of its very nature has religious implications, and notes parallels between Coleridge's view of the imagination and that of Ignatius Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises. He then turns to the role of religious experience in Wordsworth, using The Prelude as a privileged source. Next, after comparing the conception of humanity and God in Wordsworth and Coleridge, Barth considers the role of religious experience and imagery in two of Coleridge's central poetic texts, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel. Finally, Barth examines the continuing role of the Romantic idea of the religious imagination today, in literature and all the arts, linking it with the thought of theologian Karl Rahner and literary critic George Steiner. Romanticism and Transcendence brings together literary theory, poetry, and religious experience, areas that are interrelated but are often not seen in relationship. By exploring levels of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's poetry that are often ignored, Barth provides insight into how and why the imagination was so important to their work. He also demonstrates how rich with religious value and meaning poetry and the arts can be. The interdisciplinary nature of this important new study will make it useful not only to Wordsworth and Coleridge scholars and other Romantic specialists, but also to anyone concerned with the intellectual history of the nineteenth century and to theologians in general.
Author: Frederick Thomas Kirchhoff
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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