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Following the success of On The True Philosopher, In Search of the Absolute explores Swedenborg’s profound impact on modern literature. Beginning with an essay on Coleridge, Tulk and Swedenborg, the following articles discuss Swedenborg’s lasting legacy on the work of R W Emerson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walt Whitman, August Strindberg and Jorge Luis Borges. One aim of the essays, writes Stephen McNeilly in the Introduction, is to ‘shed greater light on the infuence of Swedenborg on writers of the nineteenth century to the present day’.
Read a review of In Search of the Absolute in the The Coleridge Bulletin (Journal of the Friends of Coleridge, New Series 33 (NS) Summer 2009)
table of contents
Notes on Contributors
Chronological list of Works by Swedenborg
Introduction Stephen McNeilly
1—’Swedenborg’s Meaning is the truth’: Coleridge, Tulk, and Swedenborg H J Jackson
2—Swedenborgian simile in Emersonian edification Anders Hallengren
3—Swedenborgian ideas in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Richard Lines
4—A Hermenutic Key to the title Leaves of Grass Anders Hallengren
5—Subjectivity and Truth: Strindberg and Swedenborg Lars Bergquist
6—Swedenborg and Borges: the Mystic of the North and the Mystic in puribus Emilio R Báez-Rivera
Biographies
Index
ebook
In Search of the Absolute: essays on Swedenborg and Literature, edited by Stephen McNeilly (2004) is available as an ebook. Purchase for Kindle, or as an epub via the Swedenborg Foundation website.
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