Professor Emeritus
Email: rwendlin@sju.edu
Education
A.B., Fordham University, 1962
Ph.L., Fordham University, 1963
A.M., Fordham University, 1965
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1970
Courses Taught
English 1011 (The Craft of Language)
English 1021 (Texts and Contexts)
English 2521-2522 (Wordsworth, Coleridge and Their Contemporaries; Keats, Shelley and Their ContemporariesI)
English 2911 (Literary Forms and Styles: Autobiography)
Publications
"Prophet and Friend: The Reflective Politics of Carlyle and Coleridge," in The Carlyles at Home and Abroad, ed. David R. Sorensen and Rodger L. Tarr (Ashgate: Hampshire, England and
Burlington, VT, 2004): 91-101.
"Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Coleridge, and the Possibilities of Writing," Coleridge Bulletin, n.s. 19 (Winter 2002): 69-75.
"Coleridge's Critical Sympathy with Plato," Coleridge Bulletin, n.s. 16 (Winter 2000): 115-22.
"Pater, Coleridge, and the Return of the Platonic," The Wordsworth Circle 30 (Spring 1999): 94-99
Coleridge's Progress to Christianity: Experience and Authority in Religious Faith (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1995)
"Blindness and Insight: Carlyle's Vision of Coleridge," Occasional Papers of the Carlyle Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) N.S. 4 (1991): 17-24
[with Francis Morris], "Coleridge and 'the Great Divide' between C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield," Studies in the Literary Imagination 22 (1989): 149-59
"Dramatic Reconciliation in Coleridge's Conversation Poems," Papers on Language and Literature 9 (1973): 145-60
"Coleridge and the Consistency of 'The Eolian Harp,'" Studies in Romanticism 8 (1968): 26-42
General Fields of Professional Interest
RomanticismReligion and literature
Autobiography
Interdisciplinary undergraduate education
Pedagogical style
Lecture and discussion.
Other Information
Friends of Coleridge; teaching award, Saint Joseph's University, 1996.