"A Light in Sound, A Sound-Like Power in Light": Coleridge's Phenomenal Invisible
In a reading of "The Eolian Harp" that draws briefly on "Frost at Midnight", this article discusses Coleridge's quest to do justice to the epiphanic potentialities of visual experience. In response to critical accounts of his metaphysics as imposed heavy-handedly upon realit...
| Published in: | Literature and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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Literature and theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture FA Theology KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history VA Philosophy |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B Theology B Phenomenology B Romanticism B Poetics B Metaphysics |
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| Summary: | In a reading of "The Eolian Harp" that draws briefly on "Frost at Midnight", this article discusses Coleridge's quest to do justice to the epiphanic potentialities of visual experience. In response to critical accounts of his metaphysics as imposed heavy-handedly upon reality, I reread Coleridge's speculative reflections as both heuristic and responsive to something unequivocally real. Across these two poems, Coleridge transcribes his wonderstruck attunement to the visible world as replete with intimations of God. In doing so, the poet seeks a way of speaking about God that neither synonymises him with the world nor places him beyond the realm of phenomenal experience altogether. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frad017 |