The Symbolic Imagination (eBook)

Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition

J. Robert Barth (Autor)

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2015 | 1. Auflage
172 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6719-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Essays in Literature
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Essays in Literature
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
• Schlagworte: Alexander Pope • Allegory • Anguish • Apologetics • Archetype • Austen • Autobiography • Ben Jonson • BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA • Blank Verse • Christian Apologetics • Christopher Smart • Coleridge's notebooks • conceit • confidant • Consubstantiality • Couplet • Critical Essays (Orwell) • Criticism • Deism • deity • dichotomy • diction • Divine Comedy • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard • Emblem • english poetry • Epigram • Epithet • Essays (Montaigne) • evocation • Existentialism • Far from the Madding Crowd • Fiction • Figure of Speech • First appearance • G. (novel) • Good and evil • Homer • Idiot • Imagery • Immanence • impiety • Inner Experience • J. Hillis Miller • John Stuart Mill • John Thelwall • Kubla Khan • Literature • Lyrical Ballads • Metaphor • Metaphysical poets • Metre (poetry) • M. H. Abrams • Mimesis • Modernity • narrative • Natural Supernaturalism • Novel • parable • Parmenides • Pathos • performative utterance • physical plane • Physiognomy • pity • Platonism • Poetry • Prerogative • Prose • religious values • Robert Southey • Romanticism • Romantic poetry • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • sartor resartus • SCHOLASTICISM • sensibility • Shadow Falls • shakespearean tragedy • Sibylline • simile • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • The Eolian Harp • The Faerie Queene • Theism • The Man of Feeling • The New Poetry • Theological virtues • Theology • The Other Hand • The Philosopher • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • The Unifying Force • Thomas Carlyle • Thomas McFarland • Thought • William Lisle Bowles • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6719-3 / 1400867193
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6719-6 / 9781400867196