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The original edition of this book studied the nature of symbol in
Coleridge’s work, showing that it is central to Coleridge’s
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: “This is a
just, graceful, and penetrating book. Considering the complexity of
the material, it is lucid and often eloquent. Father Barth’s
interpretation of Coleridge’s 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.” 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 Coleridge’s “scriptural
imagination.” 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.
Long established as a major poet and critic of the Romantic era,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now becoming recognized as one of the
first and most original modern religious thinkers. In 1815 he wrote
the Biographia Literaria, and from that time on there was in his
writings a noticeable shift to nonliterary subjects, especially
religion. Using all available sources in the U.S., Canada, and
England, J. Robert Barth, S.J., has found Coleridge's religious
speculations in his notebooks, in such works as Aids to Reflection
and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, in letters, in the
unpublished manuscript of his "Opus Maximum," in marginalia, and in
conversations recorded by his nephew in Table Talk. Father Barth
has synthesized these theological ideas and shaped Coleridge's
scattered and constantly developing religious thoughts into a
coherent pattern.
It has often been suggested that Romanticism of its very nature has
affinities with religious quest and spiritual value. These new
essays, written in honor of distinguished eighteenth-century and
Romantic scholar John L. Mahoney, explore the intersection of
Romanticism and religion. They range from broad considerations of
this relationship in several Romantic writers to close readings of
individual poems. The collection breaks new ground in the
exploration of the role of religion in the Romantics experience and
will be of interest not only to scholars of Romanticism and
historians of nineteenth-century religion, but to anyone interested
in the intellectual life of the nineteenth-century England.
It has often been suggested that Romanticism of its very nature has
affinities with religious quest and spiritual value. These new
essays, written in honor of distinguished eighteenth-century and
Romantic scholar John L. Mahoney, explore the intersection of
Romanticism and religion. They range from broad considerations of
this relationship in several Romantic writers to close readings of
individual poems. The collection breaks new ground in the
exploration of the role of religion in the Romantics experience and
will be of interest not only to scholars of Romanticism and
historians of nineteenth-century religion, but to anyone interested
in the intellectual life of the nineteenth-century England.
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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