Coleridge and the Inspired Word

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1985 - 187 頁
This movement radically revised the interpretation of the Bible as an "inspired" book and also helped to redefine the inspiration attributed to poets, since many poets of the period, including Coleridge himself, wished to emulate the prophetic voice of biblical tradition. Coleridge's mastery of this new study and his search for a new understanding of the Bible on which to ground his faith are the focus of this book. Beginning with an exposition of Coleridge's double role as theologian and poet, Anthony Harding analyses the development and transmission of Coleridge's views of inspiration - both biblical and poetic - and provides a history of his theological and poetic ideas in their second generation, in England especially in the work of F.D. Maurice and John Sterling, and in America in that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harding argues that Coleridge's emphasis on the human integrity of the scriptural authors provided his contemporaries with a poetics of inspiration that seemed likely to restore to literature a "biblical" sense of the divine as a presence in the world. Coleridge's treatment of biblical inspiration is thus an important contribution to Romantic poetics as well as to biblical scholarship. His concept of inspiration is also linked directly to his literary theory and thus to the current debate over the reader's relation to text and author.

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Coleridge and the Legacy of
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Naturphilosophie and Imagination
58
The Letters on the Inspiration
74
The Broad Church F D Maurice and Coleridges Letters
95
John Sterling and the Universal Sense of the Divine
113
Innocence
138
BIBLIOGRAPHY
167
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Anthony John Harding is professor of English, University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Coleridge and the Idea of Love, and The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism, and co-editor of The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 5: 1827-1834, and Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism.

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