The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition

by J. Robert Barth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082322113X
• ISBN13: 9780823221134
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"