[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[Skip Fox]

Organic in whole and parts. Lovely. A lively site for thought (esp. compared
to disputes between poets).

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Robin Hamilton
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From: Joseph Duemer

<<
"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
>>

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

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