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John Dunn
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John Dunn original writing
Life lifted to a higher plane
Originally drafted as Letter to Sara Hutchinson, Dejection: An Ode was later grouped with the Asra poems that were dedicated to Sara. Ostensibly about unrequited love and loss - it announces too the philosophical changes in Coleridge:
It were a vain endeavour,
Though I should gaze for ever
On that green light that lingers in the west:
I may not hope from outward forms to win
The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Gone would be a dependence on ‘outward forms’ and his own sense perception of them as the source of inspiration. Empiricism was the ‘vain endeavour’ from which nothing is gained, however long he might ‘gaze’. Love turned him inward, away from passive responses to ‘outward forms’, to the source of all that is vital, the active shaping of an objective world by the God-like ‘I’. And to emphasise that inner vitality he has ‘passion and the life’ literally gushing from the ‘fountains’ of the subjective self. Link passion to the crucifixion of Jesus and Coleridge has death to the world and new life lifted to a higher plane.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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From the archive:
Precursors
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Influenced by Giovanni Gentile
The work of Giovanni Gentile continues to feed into the development of my own writing, and, no doubt, will do so too into my next published book.
John Dunn
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Just a thought:
There is only one guilt for man in the eyes of the controllers of world ‘news’, ‘entertainment’ and ‘culture’ media - that of being oneself. Cowed by the lampooning, satire and comedy of contemporary media, most individuals do not have the courage to grasp crown and mitre. John Dunn (Renaissance: Counter-Renaissance)
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The Oxford to Cambridge Arch 5
Further additions to the project, starting with the Bedford to Cambridge leg of Ogilby's 1675 Oxford to Cambridge route.
John Dunn
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