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Romanticism and Zen Buddhism

Name: Romanticism and Zen Buddhism
Author: John G. Rudy
ISBN: 9780773464520

by John G. Rudy

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Meditative spirituality is the common feature that Rudy (English, Indiana U.-Kokomo) finds in Zen Buddhism and British Romantic poetry. Underlying the confluence, he says, is the realization of a displaced, formless, originary ground, which is inclusive of yet prior to and beyond the subject-object dualities of modern and postmodern conceptual analytics. He reads selected British Romantic poems in the mode of self-emptying offered by Zen meditation practice to illuminate an alternative spiritual potential in Western literary engagement. Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, and Keats are the poets he examines. The text is double spaced. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR