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Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Approaching the Divine: "Where Darkness Is as Light"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Approaching the Divine: "Where Darkness Is as Light"

Smoker, James

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Christianity

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 15, 2027

ISBN10: 1041136773
ISBN13: 9781041136774
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 15 2027
Pages: 178
Language: English

This book explores how the British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) pursued the divine, as shown in his poetry, published prose writing, notebooks, and letters.

Coleridge himself used a dialectic of light and dark, knowing and unknowing, in his often-fragmentary theological writing. He wrote about the light of God's reason, the logos, which illuminates human minds. Glimpses of this light appears in poetry such as 'The Eolian Harp' and 'Frost at Midnight' and is most explicitly pursued in prose works such as Aids to Reflection and the unfinished Opus Maximum. And yet Coleridge's writing is also marked with darkness that manifested in deep despair and doubt. This is especially true of his late poetry, which was written alongside his most ostensibly Christian prose works. Some scholarship has wrestled over whether Coleridge was successful in his pursuit of the divine light, or if he failed due to a personal flaw, the light's inherent unattainability, or its non-existence.

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