Young Coleridge and the Philosophers of NatureAs a young man, Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived in an age of great social change. The political upheavals in America and France, the industrial revolution, and the explosion in humanity's knowledge of the natural order all had a profound effect on Coleridge and radical intellectuals like him. This book examines Coleridge's ideas on science and society in the critical years 1794 to 1796, setting them within the moral, political, and scientific context of the time. Wylie shows how the complex poem, Religious Musings, became a vehicle for these ideas and how they were then developed in the poetry of Coleridge's later years. |
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... Intellectual System in November 1796 and read it thoroughly enough to transcribe the two lines of Diogenes from the middle of a 450 - page chapter . He too was interested in these beliefs , which are also called the ' ancient tradition ...
... Intellectual System in November 1796 and read it thoroughly enough to transcribe the two lines of Diogenes from the middle of a 450 - page chapter . He too was interested in these beliefs , which are also called the ' ancient tradition ...
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... Intellectual System , which actually served generations as the principal source of Greek philosophy . This opens with a description of the atomistic philosophy of the Greeks Leucippus and Democritus , which Cudworth , following the work ...
... Intellectual System , which actually served generations as the principal source of Greek philosophy . This opens with a description of the atomistic philosophy of the Greeks Leucippus and Democritus , which Cudworth , following the work ...
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... intellectual Breeze ? [ In diffrent ( Heights so ) aptly ( hung , ) that Half - heard Murmurs and loud Bursts sublime , Shrill Discords and most soothing Melodies ( Raise one ) great harmonious Concert Thus God the only universal Soul ...
... intellectual Breeze ? [ In diffrent ( Heights so ) aptly ( hung , ) that Half - heard Murmurs and loud Bursts sublime , Shrill Discords and most soothing Melodies ( Raise one ) great harmonious Concert Thus God the only universal Soul ...
Contents
The Ancient Tradition of Knowledge | 12 |
Wrestling with the Spirit of Newton | 27 |
The Elect Band of Patriot Sages | 47 |
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