Beginning with an exposition of Coleridge's double role as theologian and poet, Anthony Harding analyses the development and transmission of Coleridge's views of inspiration - both biblical and poetic - and provides a history of his theological and poetic ideas in their second generation, in England especially in the work of F.D. Maurice and John Sterling, and in America in that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harding argues that Coleridge's emphasis on the human integrity of the scriptural authors provided his contemporaries with a poetics of inspiration that seemed likely to restore to literature a "biblical" sense of the divine as a presence in the world. Coleridge's treatment of biblical inspiration is thus an important contribution to Romantic poetics as well as to biblical scholarship. His concept of inspiration is also linked directly to his literary theory and thus to the current debate over the reader's relation to text and author.
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 10
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 12
- ABBREVIATIONS 16
- INTRODUCTION 20
- I. Beyond Mythology: Coleridge and the Legacy of the Enlightenment 46
- II. Beyond Nature: Naturphilosophie and Imagination 75
- III. Inspiration and Freedom: The "Letters on the Inspiration of the Scriptures" 91
- IV. The Broad Church, F. D. Maurice, and Coleridge's "Letters on the Inspiration of the Scriptures" 112
- V. John Sterling and the Universal Sense of the Divine 130
- VI. The Divinity in Man: Transcendentalism as Organized Innocence 155
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 184
- INDEX 196
- A 196
- B 196
- C 197
- D 198
- E 198
- F 199
- G 199
- H 199
- I 200
- J 200
- K 200
- L 201
- M 201
- N 201
- O 201
- P 202
- Q 202
- R 202
- S 203
- T 203
- U 204
- V 204
- W 204
- Y 204
- Z 204
