The Eolian Harp: Coleridge's Middle Voice?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conversation poem, The Eolian Harp, configures a complex and highly significant relationship between activity and passivity. A merely passive poet, under the influence of natural or divine inspiration, would in Coleridge's view be reduced to a mere automaton. Yet...

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Main Author: Allen, Blake (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2020]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-119
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
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