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The Symbolic Imagination - Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition (Hardcover, 2)
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The Symbolic Imagination - Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition (Hardcover, 2)
Series: Studies in Religion and Literature
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The original edition of this book studied the nature of symbol in
Coleridgeas work, showing that it is central to Coleridgeas
intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in
philosophy and theology. Symbol was for Coleridge essentially a
religious reality, that participates in the nature of a sacrament
as an encounter between material and spiritual reality. The author
shows how Wordsworth and Coleridge developed a poetry, unlike that
of the eighteenth century, based on symbolic imagination. He then
related this symbolic poetry to the tradition of romanticism itself
Richard Harter Fogle wrote of the original edition: aThis is a
just, graceful, and penetrating book. Considering the complexity of
the material, it is lucid and often eloquent. Father Barthas
interpretation of Coleridgeas doctrine of symbol is essentially
original, as are his illustrative readings from the poems. His
substantial essay moves harmoniously from Coleridge's particular
insights to their wider implications for romanticism.a In this new
edition, the author has enlarged the scope of his study, first
reviewing in an introductory chapter the important scholarship of
the past twenty years on symbol and imagination. He then goes on to
give his work a deeper theological foundation, and to extend his
argument to embrace what he calls Coleridgeas ascriptural
imagination.a As in the original edition, he concludes that symbol
is a phenomenon profoundly linked with the experience of
romanticism itself and with a fundamental change in religious
sensibility that has echoes even in our own time.
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