I feel strongly and I think strongly, but I seldom feel without thinking or think without feeling. Hence, though my poetry has in general a hue of tenderness or passion over it, yet it seldom exhibits unmixed and simple tenderness or passion. My philosophical opinions are blended with or deduced from my feelings, and this, I think, peculiarises my style of writing, and, like everything else, it is sometimes a beauty and sometimes a fault. (...) And whatever man's excellence, that will be likewise his fault. Coleridge in a letter to John Thelwall, 17 December 1796 |
Index
S.T. Coleridge
- Three people, one soul
About the soul relationship between the Wordsworths and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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An ancient mariner shoots an albatross
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Complete poem -
Each their own Ancient Mariner
Christian allegory, nightmare, self-portret and more
- What does the poet mean?
Poetry as a mirror of the reader's soul -
The night is my hell
Opium, nightmares, anguish and agony
- Coleridge, the reader
'I heard and saw nothing, and read and read and read.' -
Poor Hawk! O Strange Lust of Murder in Man!
Coleridge's flight to Malta -
Woe to the man to whom the origin of evil is an uninteresting question
Coleridge and his preoccupation with the origin of evil - The Valley of Life
An allegorical vision of superstition, religion and atheism - Pantisocracy or life in a small community of chosen individuals
How a lofty dream fades in the mist of bleak reality
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