“Perpetual affirmations, unexplained”: The rhetoric of reiteration in Coleridge, Carlyle, and Emerson

This essay explores the power of reiteration as a rhetorical form. Focusing on examples from Coleridge, Carlyle, and Emerson as they sought to make matters of faith, imagination, and intuition persuasive without recourse to argument, it raises the question again of the relationship of rhetoric and logic.