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Article: The lyric dispensation: Coleridge, Mosaic law, and equivocal authority in "the Eolian Harp".
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- Studies in Romanticism
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- September 22, 2005
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To Preserve one nation free from Idolatry in order that it might be a safe receptacle for the precursive Evidences of Christianity, was the principle design of the Mosaic Dispensation.
--Lectures on Revealed Religion (1)
FOR COLERIDGE, THE BIBLE WAS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND EQUALLY A source of law. As Elinor Shaffer has argued in Kubla Khan and The Fall of Jerusalem, aware of the German Higher Criticism as filtered through the work of Alexander Geddes, by the mid 1790s Coleridge began to conceive of modern poetics as an expression of prophecy; assuming a program of mythic writing and reading, Coleridge sought to reproduce the moment of inspiration in ...