1985, ISBN: 0915138700

[EAN: 9780915138708], Neubuch, [PU: Wipf And Stock Publishers], RELIGION / CHRISTIAN CHURCH GENERAL; THEOLOGY; RELIGION;, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - I… More...

[EAN: 9780915138708], Neubuch, [PU: Wipf And Stock Publishers], RELIGION / CHRISTIAN CHURCH GENERAL; THEOLOGY; RELIGION;, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the nineteenth century there was a definite divide between those who read Coleridge as a religious thinker and those who read him as a poet. Even now, readers and critics find it hard not to consider one aspect of his work to the exclusion of the other. Here David Jasper considers Coleridge as a poet, literary critic, theologian and philosopher, seeing him as occupying a representative place in European and English Romantic thought on poetry, religion and the role of the artist. His earliest writings are closely linked to his mature religious and critical thought, and his greatest poems, 'Kubla Khan', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the 'Dejection' Ode, are a necessary prelude to the prose writings of the middle period of Coleridge's life. Self-reflection upon the processes of creating poetry and art, particularly in the Biographia Literaria, is an important development in Coleridge's sense of the relation of the finite to the infinite through the inspiration of the poet. Attention to the nature of inspiration, imagination and irony in creative writing leads directly to his later discussions of man's need of a divine redeemer and the nature of divine revelation. In the later poetry, attention is given to the theme of self-reflection in which spiritual growth is part and parcel of poetic development, each balancing the other. The final part of the book considers Coleridge's later prose, linking his reflections upon poetry with an epistemology, which he learnt principally from Kant and Fichtee in a discussion of revelation and radical evil. In conclusion, Coleridge's religious position is summed up through the late, and still unpublished not Elektronisches Buch, and the fragmentary remains of the long-projected Opus Maximum. The last chapter links Coleridge with a more recent debate on the nature of inspiration, poetic and divine, which arises out of Austin Farrer's Bampton Lectures The Glass of Vision., Books<

ISBN: 9780915138708

Pickwick Publications, April 1985. Hardcover. New. Clergyman and scholar David Jasper would have us see Samuel Taylor Coleridge transposed within Piranesi's etching, <i>The Pr… More...

Pickwick Publications, April 1985. Hardcover. New. Clergyman and scholar David Jasper would have us see Samuel Taylor Coleridge transposed within Piranesi's etching, <i>The Prisons</i>''an insignificant and indistinct figure...toiling up a staircase which ascends mysteriously and infinitely into the vaulted recesses. Aspiration matches the endlessness of a prison which both traps the artist in his finitude and suggests a possible escape into infinity for the man who would persevere against terrible odds.'' Operating within the belief that art and aesthetics can illuminate and refresh the religious life, Jasper seeks to reconcile the schism that developed late in the nineteenth century between those who read Coleridge as a religious writer-in the tradition of Hooker, Milton and Jeremy Taylor -- and those who read him as a poet and literary critic, dismissing his religious thought as ''confused mysticism, detached, unsystematic and insubstantial.'' Examining Coleridge's Romantic context, several of his major poems (''The Eolian Harp,'' ''Kubla Kahn,'' ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,'' and ''Dejection''), critical prose, and later poems, prose and notebooks, our good man Jasper reveals Coleridge as a wrecked man bowed beneath his sense of sin and failure but nevertheless gladly constricted by ''the paradoxes of Christian believing.'' Most interesting is Jasper's comparison between Coleridge's religious thought and that of several nineteenth and twentieth century theologians as well as the consonance between Northrop Fry's <i>The Great Code</i> (a study of the Bible and literature) and Coleridge's reflections on literature and the artist as creator., Pickwick Publications, 6<

1985, ISBN: 0915138700

[EAN: 9780915138708], Neubuch, [PU: Pickwick Publications April 1985], SAMUEL COLERIDGE, POETRY CRITICISM, AESTHETICS, RELIGIOUS POETRY, ROMANTICISM, Clergyman and scholar David Jasper wo… More...

[EAN: 9780915138708], Neubuch, [PU: Pickwick Publications April 1985], SAMUEL COLERIDGE, POETRY CRITICISM, AESTHETICS, RELIGIOUS POETRY, ROMANTICISM, Clergyman and scholar David Jasper would have us see Samuel Taylor Coleridge transposed within Piranesi's etching, The Prisons''an insignificant and indistinct figure.toiling up a staircase which ascends mysteriously and infinitely into the vaulted recesses. Aspiration matches the endlessness of a prison which both traps the artist in his finitude and suggests a possible escape into infinity for the man who would persevere against terrible odds.'' Operating within the belief that art and aesthetics can illuminate and refresh the religious life, Jasper seeks to reconcile the schism that developed late in the nineteenth century between those who read Coleridge as a religious writer-in the tradition of Hooker, Milton and Jeremy Taylor -- and those who read him as a poet and literary critic, dismissing his religious thought as ''confused mysticism, detached, unsystematic and insubstantial.'' Examining Coleridge's Romantic context, several of his major poems (''The Eolian Harp,'' ''Kubla Kahn,'' ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,'' and ''Dejection''), critical prose, and later poems, prose and notebooks, our good man Jasper reveals Coleridge as a wrecked man bowed beneath his sense of sin and failure but nevertheless gladly constricted by ''the paradoxes of Christian believing.'' Most interesting is Jasper's comparison between Coleridge's religious thought and that of several nineteenth and twentieth century theologians as well as the consonance between Northrop Fry's The Great Code (a study of the Bible and literature) and Coleridge's reflections on literature and the artist as creator.<