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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... influences on Coleridge's major poetry . Many have dismissed the importance of the empirical tradition because it was a youthful preoccupation of the poet , yet have written about the profound and lasting influence of Platonism on ...
... influences on Coleridge's major poetry . Many have dismissed the importance of the empirical tradition because it was a youthful preoccupation of the poet , yet have written about the profound and lasting influence of Platonism on ...
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... influences on Coleridge ( ' Coleridge , Hartley , and the Mystics ' , JHI xx ( 1959 ) , 477-94 ) Richard Haven asserted the influence of British empiricism on Coleridge in place of Neoplatonism . The fragmentary quotations from Cudworth ...
... influences on Coleridge ( ' Coleridge , Hartley , and the Mystics ' , JHI xx ( 1959 ) , 477-94 ) Richard Haven asserted the influence of British empiricism on Coleridge in place of Neoplatonism . The fragmentary quotations from Cudworth ...
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... influence of phases of the sun and moon on the health of creatures . He listed 11 types of diseases which show periodic variations due to heavenly bodies , including hydrophobia , piles , and gout , and discussed also the influence of ...
... influence of phases of the sun and moon on the health of creatures . He listed 11 types of diseases which show periodic variations due to heavenly bodies , including hydrophobia , piles , and gout , and discussed also the influence of ...
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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