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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... plastic powers ' , and is much closer to the aether hypothesis : And ye of plastic power , that interfus'd Roll thro ' the grosser and material mass In organizing surge ! Holies of God ! ( 423-5 ) Instead of a unified ubiquitous spirit ...
... plastic powers ' , and is much closer to the aether hypothesis : And ye of plastic power , that interfus'd Roll thro ' the grosser and material mass In organizing surge ! Holies of God ! ( 423-5 ) Instead of a unified ubiquitous spirit ...
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... plastic power of nature as a whole in the writings of the Neoplatonists More and Cudworth . He then described the three popular theories of the eighteenth century : Some philosophers began at length to imagine that matter might acquire ...
... plastic power of nature as a whole in the writings of the Neoplatonists More and Cudworth . He then described the three popular theories of the eighteenth century : Some philosophers began at length to imagine that matter might acquire ...
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... plastic nature to activate it . The Spirit of God rising over the waters of chaos does this , and life is produced from the lifeless sea : When LOVE rose glittering , and his gorgeous wings Over the abyss flutter'd with such glad noise ...
... plastic nature to activate it . The Spirit of God rising over the waters of chaos does this , and life is produced from the lifeless sea : When LOVE rose glittering , and his gorgeous wings Over the abyss flutter'd with such glad noise ...
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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