Coleridge, Thoreau, and the Transatlantic Riddle of the World

[T]he benefits conferred by [Coleridge] on this and future ages are as yet incalculable...To the unprepared he is nothing, to the prepared, every thing. Margaret Fuller1 When Henry David Thoreau alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u27s Dejection: An Ode in his epigraph to Walden, he situates his Walden Pond experiment as a contribution to a transatlantic conversation concerning a central theme in Coleridge\u27s poem - namely, how the self makes meaning of its relation to the world.2 In fact, Coleridge\u27s corpus shaped Thoreau\u27s dedicated exploration of just this relation - that between the self and nature. For Thoreau, and for Coleridge before him, this relation involved a third integral category: spirit. While today we tend to separate the human self, the external world of nature, adn the world of spirit, Coleridge envisioned these categories as comprising a continuum accessible through the human mind. Hence, he wrote, Then it is, that Nature, like an individual spirit or fellow soul, seems to think and hold commune with us. 3 Thoreau expressed a similar interest in nature, spirit, and self: My desire to commune with the spirit of the universe - to be intoxicated even with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar - to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet - is perennial & constant. 4 Both writers pursued a notion of spirit as interrelated and integrated with the self and with the natural world

Bécquer, Las Rimas y otras páginas. Prólogo y notas de José María Monner Sans. Angel Estrada y Cía., Buenos Aires, 1947. 602 pp. (Clás. Cast., 8).

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