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- adjective Of or pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English
Romantic poet and critic.
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Mays 'note, "The first instance of a characteristic kind of Coleridgean coinage" (CC 16.3.1.16). commune
Annotations 2007
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This idea does a great deal of work for Armstrong, for she links it, again in a quasi-Coleridgean manner, with imagination: "The only way we can conceive of God, who remains imperceptible to the senses and to logical proof, is by means of symbols which it is the chief function of the imaginative mind to interpret" (233).
Introduction 2008
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Of the song "Frozen Warnings," Bangs, at his most Coleridgean, writes:
The Haunting Cheekbones of Hallowed Despair: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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One must here recall that the Cittamatra view itself goes beyond the pantheism of the Coleridgean and
Hegel on Buddhism 2007
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Wordsworthian and Coleridgean manifestations, distanced itself from the frantic imaginings of the Gothic romancer through effecting a shift from the eye to the ear, from sight to the auditory field as the privileged organ and field of aesthetic perception and appreciation.
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Is not his revisionist view but the narcissistic antithesis of the rejected Miltonic, and prior Coleridgean, perspective, too simply exchanging avian sadness for avian happiness?
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And, as shall now be shown, this marring and atonement are themselves really key parts of a deeper, darker Coleridgean and Wordsworthian schema of human and animal "society" as a collective of "sweet influences" prompted by animal
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In this Coleridgean manifesto of sorts the principal source of social cohesion rests in the socializing sympathies the foal itself occasions and which its brays repeatedly confirm, in stark contrast to the caged bird in the imprisoning city, whose "warbled melodies" merely "soothe to rest/The aching of pale Fashion's vacant breast!"
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Ironically, Poe's most Coleridgean efforts are echoes in poetic prose of Coleridge's prosaic poetry.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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Poe's own verses duplicate the Coleridgean counter-sublime to Wordsworth in that they (particularly "The City in the Sea" and "Dream-Land") consist of unearthly landscapes, like Xanadu, which have, at most, merely a nominal counterpart in reality.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999
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