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Coleridge on Beauty: Beauty, Love, and the ‘Beauty-Making Power’

Coleridge on Beauty: Beauty, Love, and the ‘Beauty-Making Power’ J. ROBERT BARTH S.J. You are an artist, are you not, Mr. Dedalus? said the dean, glancing up and blinking his pale eyes. The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.1 In his recent book Speaking of Beauty, Denis Donoghue remarks that ‘the politicization of literary studies has receded somewhat in the past few years’. ‘Theory’, he goes on, ‘is no longer the punitive discourse it was when Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Stanley Fish, Frederic Jameson, and their colleagues were first engaged in it. The tone of “cultural studies” is not now as acrimonious as it has been’. The result is, Donoghue suggests, that ‘there is more space for themes – beauty is one of them – which not long ago were held to be regressive. The word ‘aesthetic’ is no longer a term of abuse and contempt’.2 In light of this ‘mellowness in recent intellectual weather’ (Donoghue, p. 9), I am emboldened to turn to Coleridge’s views on beauty – a subject that has been given little serious attention in recent years. Perhaps the most immediately useful starting-point might be the three documents appended http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

Coleridge on Beauty: Beauty, Love, and the ‘Beauty-Making Power’

S.J., J. Robert Barth
Romanticism , Volume 11 (1): 14 – Apr 1, 2005
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J. ROBERT BARTH S.J. You are an artist, are you not, Mr. Dedalus? said the dean, glancing up and blinking his pale eyes. The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.1 In his recent book Speaking of Beauty, Denis Donoghue remarks that ‘the politicization of literary studies has receded somewhat in the past few years’. ‘Theory’, he goes on, ‘is no longer the punitive discourse it was when Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Stanley Fish, Frederic Jameson, and their colleagues were first engaged in it. The tone of “cultural studies” is not now as acrimonious as it has been’. The result is, Donoghue suggests, that ‘there is more space for themes – beauty is one of them – which not long ago were held to be regressive. The word ‘aesthetic’ is no longer a term of abuse and contempt’.2 In light of this ‘mellowness in recent intellectual weather’ (Donoghue, p. 9), I am emboldened to turn to Coleridge’s views on beauty – a subject that has been given little serious attention in recent years. Perhaps the most immediately useful starting-point might be the three documents appended

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