Poetic inspiration in the philosophies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Muhammad Iqbal
The stress that English Romanticism lays upon a poet’s imaginative capacity as a source of poetic inspiration finds its clearest expression in the writings of its philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Unlike many of his English contemporaries, his developed a philosophy of poetic inspira...
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| description | The stress that English Romanticism lays upon a poet’s imaginative capacity as a source of poetic inspiration finds its clearest expression in the writings of its philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Unlike many of his English contemporaries, his developed a philosophy of poetic inspiration that conceptualized the notion of imagination within the context of a Christian theology that was influenced both by Platonism and German Idealism. As a student and later lecturer of English Literature, the Islamic poet Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) had been exposed to both English Romanticism and German Idealism. Though he recognized the importance of imagination as a source of artistic creativity, Iqbal emphasised intuition as a higher form of poetic inspiration. By adapting and merging certain aspects of English Romanticism and Islamic theology, he asserted the importance of a special type of intuition, Intuition of Existence, as a form of poetic inspiration. This paper, hence, is a comparative study of English Romanticism’s emphasis on imagination and Iqbal’s notion of intuition, in order to discuss the important roles that both Christian and Islamic theologies played in these literary philosophies respectively. |
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| spelling | iium-326322016-05-11T09:25:11Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/32632/ Poetic inspiration in the philosophies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Muhammad Iqbal Mohd Ramli, Aimillia B Philosophy (General) BH Aesthetics BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc PI Oriental languages and literatures PR English literature The stress that English Romanticism lays upon a poet’s imaginative capacity as a source of poetic inspiration finds its clearest expression in the writings of its philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Unlike many of his English contemporaries, his developed a philosophy of poetic inspiration that conceptualized the notion of imagination within the context of a Christian theology that was influenced both by Platonism and German Idealism. As a student and later lecturer of English Literature, the Islamic poet Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) had been exposed to both English Romanticism and German Idealism. Though he recognized the importance of imagination as a source of artistic creativity, Iqbal emphasised intuition as a higher form of poetic inspiration. By adapting and merging certain aspects of English Romanticism and Islamic theology, he asserted the importance of a special type of intuition, Intuition of Existence, as a form of poetic inspiration. This paper, hence, is a comparative study of English Romanticism’s emphasis on imagination and Iqbal’s notion of intuition, in order to discuss the important roles that both Christian and Islamic theologies played in these literary philosophies respectively. 2013-07-18 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/32632/2/ICLa_book.jpeg application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/32632/14/_AILC_2013-Abstract_book.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/32632/21/Poetic_Inspiration.pdf Mohd Ramli, Aimillia (2013) Poetic inspiration in the philosophies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Muhammad Iqbal. In: 20th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, 18-24 July 2013, Paris, France. |
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| title_full | Poetic inspiration in the philosophies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Muhammad Iqbal
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| title_sort | poetic inspiration in the philosophies of samuel taylor coleridge and muhammad iqbal |
| topic | B Philosophy (General) BH Aesthetics BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc PI Oriental languages and literatures PR English literature |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/32632/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32632/2/ICLa_book.jpeg http://irep.iium.edu.my/32632/14/_AILC_2013-Abstract_book.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/32632/21/Poetic_Inspiration.pdf |