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Thinking with plants : ecological logos and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Mason, Emma (2016) Thinking with plants : ecological logos and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge Bulletin, 47 . pp. 73-85. ISSN 0968-0551.
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Abstract
Only days after Wordsworth’s brother, John, died at sea on the Earl of Abergavenny on February 5, 1805, Coleridge exclaimed ‘No Christ, No God!’, marking his move from Unitarianism to a belief in the Trinity. He noted: ‘O that this Conviction may work upon me and in me, and that my mind may be made up as to the character of Jesus, and of historical Christianity, as clearly as it is of the Logos and intellectual or spiritual Christianity’. The Logos, or Word, is that ‘first language’ from which everything else derives, the means by which non-divine things come to know the divine. It connects the divine to the human through reason, and, in its realization and incarnation in Christ, serves as a harmonizing principle that mediates and grounds all phenomena. By April of the same year, Coleridge understood the Logos as the basis of a relationship of oneness with God revealed to the human through apprehension of an ‘inner’ nature revealed to the observer by objects in the world:
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Coleridge Bulletin | ||||
Publisher: | The Friends of Coleridge - Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ||||
ISSN: | 0968-0551 | ||||
Official Date: | 21 June 2016 | ||||
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Volume: | 47 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 73-85 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 July 2016 |
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