Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to James Augustus Hessey, [1822-25]

Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his publisher, James Augustus Hessey. The watermark of the paper reads \u27Cowan 1822\u27. The letter discusses the publication of Coleridge\u27s Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, which was first published in 1825. The letter is not published in either The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge or The Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (both edited by Earl Leslie Griggs). Cf. references to Seneca in the letter to entry no. 5089 in The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (ed. Coburn and Christensen).https://scholarworks.umt.edu/whicker/1018/thumbnail.jp

Phantastes Chapter 9: Dejection: An Ode

From Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u27s Dejection: An Ode (lines 47-49 and 53-58). Coleridge published the poem in 1802

A balada do velho marinheiro multilíngue

Organização: Daniel Serravalle de Sá & Gisele Tyba Mayrink Orgad

The Signal of Regard: William Godwin’s Correspondence Networks

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The letter is a gift of attention, in which the writer seeks to communicate regard by means of a signal crafted uniquely for the recipient. The concept of regard, as developed by the economic historian Avner Offer, indicates both attention and approbation. Adam Smith took it to be the driver of human exchange in emotions as much as in commerce. The exchange of regard captures the logic of a prodigious correspondent like William Godwin. The personalization of the gift signal is an attempt to convey an obligation to reciprocate. Godwin was attuned to this obligation and worked hard to fulfil it—with varying degrees of success. His correspondents encompassed almost every significant literary and political figure on the political left from the era of the French Revolution to the 1832 Reform Act. The children of the Godwin household were nourished by bonds of reciprocity, which they developed and extended when, in adulthood, they dispersed across Europe. The letters of Godwin and his correspondents embody a larger conversation, allowing intimacy to be preserved at a distance. The signals they once created for each other may now be received by us

The roots of romantic cognitivism:(post) Kantian intellectual intuition and the unity of creation and discovery

During the romantic period, various authors expressed the belief that through creativity, we can directly access truth. To modern ears, this claim sounds strange. In this paper, I attempt to render the position comprehensible, and to show how it came to seem plausible to the romantics. I begin by offering examples of this position as found in the work of the British romantics. Each thinks that the deepest knowledge can only be gained by an act of creativity. I suggest the belief should be seen in the context of the post-Kantian embrace of “intellectual intuition.” Unresolved tensions in Kant's philosophy had encouraged a belief that creation and discovery were not distinct categories. The post-Kantians held that in certain cases of knowledge (for Fichte, knowledge of self and world; for Schelling, knowledge of the Absolute) the distinction between discovering a truth and creating that truth dissolves. In this context, the cognitive role assigned to acts of creativity is not without its own appeal

Poetry & prose

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