Plastic Intellectual Breeze: The Contribution of Ralph Cudworth to S. T. Coleridge's Early Poetics of the Symbol (Paperback)

Contents: British Sources of English Romantic Platonism ? The ≪new≫ Romantic symbol ? S. T. Coleridge’s concept(s) of symbol ? The Philosophy of the Cambridge Platonists ?Ralph Cudworth’s notion of plastic nature in The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) ? The Reception of the Cambridge Thinkers’ philosophy in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ? S. T. Coleridge’s early poetics (1794-1798) ? The Neoplatonic background of Coleridge’s Lectures on Revealed Religion, ≪Destiny of Nations≫, ≪Religious Musings≫ and the Conversation Poems.