[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[Robin Hamilton]

From: Joseph Duemer

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"I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Coleridge in this thread yet -- wasn't 
that where the "organic" business in art/lit started from?"

My mention of "German & British Romantics" might be said to include 
Coleridge.

jd
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There's a long and as is usual useful entry in Raymond Williams' _Keywords_. 
The most pertinent passage reads:

"The distinction [between ORGANIC and MECHANICAL] was made in the Romantic 
movement, probably first in German, among the Nature Philosophers. 
Coleridge distinguished between ORGANIC and INORGANIC bodies or systems; in 
the ORGANIC 'the whole is everything and the parts are nothing' while in the 
INORGANIC 'the whole is nothing more than a collection of the individual 
parts'."

Robin