ABSTRACT
The author may remark to begin with that it is uncomfortably not surprising that this new Defender of the Faith, writing on Nicholas Ferrar and George Herbert, in a periodical known for its Anglo-Catholic tendency, should show himself ignorant of the language of the Book of Common Prayer. In the First Prayer Book of Edward VI this psalm was part of the order for the burial of the dead. It remains, in Latin, in the Roman Catholic Office for the Dead. The passage cited is, of course, on Coleridge's Wind Harp theme again, an allegorical presentation of the central problem of philosophy. The author have lingered with this example partly because it shows the kind of comment which Coleridge's doctrine, in his interpretation of it, must expect, but chiefly because it illustrates both erratic reading and lack of reflection upon the problems of symbolization.
