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Could Coleridge ever achieve his resolve to be ‘Cleans’d from the vaporous passions that bedim/God’s Image’? In this chapter, moving from the time of his disillusionment with revolutionary France to his death in 1834, I plan to show that he persistently sought a redemption both personal and cosmic and that this necessarily involved for him also the search for meaning. In this dual search the role of the Bible was crucial.
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Notes and References
M. H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (New York 1973), p. 47.
David Jasper, Coleridge as Poet and Religious Thinker (Alison Park 1985), p. 43.
J. D. Michaelis, Introduction to the New Testament… translated from the Fourth Edition of the German… by Herbert Marsh (Cambridge 1801), îv, pp. 457, 460, 487.
J. G. Eichhorn, Commentarius in Apocalypsin Johannis (Göttingen 1791), I, p. liv.
Edward Irving, Babylon and Infidelity Foredoomed of God (Glasgow 1826), I, pp. 247–55.
S. T. Coleridge, ‘On the Prometheus of Aeschylus’, Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature 2 (1834), pp. 391, 397. On the lecture, cf. Beer’s bibliographical note in AR, p. 561f.; Nigel Leask, The Politics of Imagination in Coleridge’s Critical Thought (London 1988), pp. 200–9.
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Burdon, C. (1997). Coleridge and the Limits of Interpretation. In: The Apocalypse in England. Studies in Literature and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379756_6
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