Reflections : A Collection of Poems and Pictures
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Lists What are lists? In addition to his poetry, Coleridge also wrote influential pieces of literary criticism including Biographia Literaria , a collection of his thoughts and opinions on literature which he published in The work delivered both biographical explanations of the author's life as well as his impressions on literature. The collection also contained an analysis of a broad range of philosophical principles of literature ranging from Aristotle to Immanuel Kant and Schelling and applied them to the poetry of peers such as William Wordsworth.
Eliot stated that he believed that Coleridge was "perhaps the greatest of English critics, and in a sense the last. However, Eliot also criticises Coleridge for allowing his emotion to play a role in the metaphysical process, believing that critics should not have emotions that are not provoked by the work being studied.
To Kenner, Coleridge's attempt to discuss complex philosophical concepts without describing the rational process behind them displays a lack of critical thinking that makes the volume more of a biography than a work of criticism. In Biographia Literaria and his poetry, symbols are not merely "objective correlatives" to Coleridge, but instruments for making the universe and personal experience intelligible and spiritually covalent.
“Reflections of Life, A Collection of Poetry, Prose and Images,” is the debut literary work from new author and poet Mel Brown McGinnis. This compilation takes. Forbidden Truth: A Collection of Poems, Reflections and Personal Quotes [ Deborah this book pulls the veil back on the issues behind all our pretty pictures.
To Coleridge, the "cinque spotted spider," making its way upstream "by fits and starts," [Biographia Literaria] is not merely a comment on the intermittent nature of creativity, imagination, or spiritual progress, but the journey and destination of his life. The spider's five legs represent the central problem that Coleridge lived to resolve, the conflict between Aristotelian logic and Christian philosophy. Two legs of the spider represent the "me-not me" of thesis and antithesis, the idea that a thing cannot be itself and its opposite simultaneously, the basis of the clockwork Newtonian world view that Coleridge rejected.
The remaining three legs—exothesis, mesothesis and synthesis or the Holy trinity—represent the idea that things can diverge without being contradictory.
Taken together, the five legs—with synthesis in the center, form the Holy Cross of Ramist logic. The cinque-spotted spider is Coleridge's emblem of holism, the quest and substance of Coleridge's thought and spiritual life. He comments in his reviews: To trace the nice boundaries, beyond which terror and sympathy are deserted by the pleasurable emotions, — to reach those limits, yet never to pass them, hic labor, hic opus est. Most powerful stimulants, they can never be required except by the torpor of an unawakened, or the languor of an exhausted, appetite We trust, however, that satiety will banish what good sense should have prevented; and that, wearied with fiends, incomprehensible characters, with shrieks, murders, and subterraneous dungeons, the public will learn, by the multitude of the manufacturers, with how little expense of thought or imagination this species of composition is manufactured.
However, Coleridge used these elements in poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Christabel and Kubla Khan published in , but known in manuscript form before then and certainly influenced other poets and writers of the time. Poems like these both drew inspiration from and helped to inflame the craze for Gothic romance. Coleridge also made considerable use of Gothic elements in his commercially successful play Remorse.
Mary Shelley , who knew Coleridge well, mentions The Rime of the Ancient Mariner twice directly in Frankenstein , and some of the descriptions in the novel echo it indirectly. Although William Godwin , her father, disagreed with Coleridge on some important issues, he respected his opinions and Coleridge often visited the Godwins. Mary Shelley later recalled hiding behind the sofa and hearing his voice chanting The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Lewis also makes mention of his name in the screwtape letters as a poor example of prayer, in which the devils should encourage.
Although his father was an Anglican vicar, Coleridge worked as a Unitarian preacher between and He eventually returned to the Church of England in Despite being mostly remembered today for his poetry and literary criticism, Coleridge was also perhaps in his own eyes primarily a theologian.
His writings include discussions of the status of scripture, the doctrines of the Fall , justification and sanctification, and the personality and infinity of God. A key figure in the Anglican theology of his day, his writings are still regularly referred to by contemporary Anglican theologians. Coleridge was also a profound political thinker.
While he began his life as a political radical, and an enthusiast for the French Revolution; over the years Coleridge developed a more conservative view of society, somewhat in the manner of Burke.
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This gives the poems honesty, wisdom and depth, offering the reader hope. Combining the categories of worship material and devotional poetry, A Reflection of God is an inspiring read for any fans of poetry about religion, Christianity and spirituality. A Reflection of God by Joanna Tulloch This collection of one hundred and one poems and reflections is a treasure. Joanna writes poetry as many of us breathe although one poem — By Beckley Mast p. The book is both a companion for the soul and a resource for those who lead worship.
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These poems and meditations are real and speak from soul to soul. They trace a movement from fear and darkness to the light and love of God in which the imperfect self is held in the grace of God. Joanna might call this a movement from jungle to garden.