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Sound, silence, and voice in meditation: Coleridge, Berkeley, and the conversation poems.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Berkeley)(Critical essay)

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From: Christianity and Literature
Date: 20050922
Author:Morris, G.S.

... the interment of such a treasure in a dead language must needs be contrary to the intentions of the gracious Donor.

Coleridge, The Statesman's Manual

As James Engell reminds us, S. T. Coleridge considered himself a Berkeleian (110), yet elsewhere in Coleridge criticism we find more convincing denials: J. Robert Barth, for example, claims that we do not "have to resort to a Berkeleian philosophy" to find the source of Coleridge's belief in a God who actively sustains creation (Symbolic 20), while Seamus Perry argues that "his Berkeleianism is impure," because, "Even at ...

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