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Coleridge and the languages of paganism.(modern paganism in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's works )

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20070622
Author:Leadbetter, Gregory M.

The Triumph of the Moon, by the British historian Ronald Hutton, purports to be "the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world: modern pagan witchcraft." Hutton contends that modern paganism does not preserve actual religious practices from pre-Christian Europe, but rather that, "if it is the child of any single phenomenon, then it is the belated offspring of the Romantic Movement" (viii). Hutton's brief analysis, however, depicts Coleridge as irrelevant to this lineage, a man who admired "both nature and Schiller but not Greek ...