The Symbolic Imagination —— Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition

----- 象征性的想象：柯勒律治和传统的浪漫

ISBN: 9780691616704 出版年：2015 页码：171 Barth, J Robert Princeton University Press

Studying the nature of symbol in coleridge's work, father barth shows that it is central to coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy and theology. He finds symbol to be an essentially religious reality for coleridge, one that partakes of the nature of a sacrament, especially sacrament as an encounter between material and spiritual reality. Father barth notes that eighteenth-century poetry was by and large a poetry of metaphor rather than of symbol, a poetry of reference rather than of encounter. In close readings of the poetry of wordsworth and coleridge, he shows how they practiced and developed the poetry of symbol. Finally, analyzing the symbolic imagination, the author concludes that it is a phenomenon profoundly linked with the experience of romanticism itself and with a fundamental change in religious sensibility.