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The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition
By (Author) J. Robert Barth
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
821.7
Hardback
172
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
397g
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