Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien
by
Dr Michael Tomko
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's thought and Shakespeare criticism to reconstruct this idea as a form of "poetic faith", Michael Tomko here lays the foundations...