Coleridge and Emerson
Subtitle: A Complex Affinity
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781581121995
Subjects: Modern fiction; General; Philosophy; Fiction
First sentence: When Coleridge writes, in the twelfth chapter of Biographia Literaria, that All knowledge rests on the coincidence of an object with a subject (CW 7,1: 252), he is displaying the typical Coleridgean strategy of wishful thinking rooted in a pious search for the Holy Grail the reconciliation of opposites.