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The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition
By (Author) J. Robert Barth
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
821.7
Paperback
172
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
227g
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 betwee