Unity of life in infinite reality

Wordsworth and Coleridge are a gold mine for those who regard poetry as a continuation of philosophy by other means. From the pantheistic One Life thought to the Christian idea of redemption, from Plato's world soul to Kant's transcendental idealism: in many fragments the core thoughts of Western thought shine through. Also their poetry in many places remind us of fundamental ideas of Eastern philosophies like Taoism (Laozi, Zhuangzi) and

Mahāyāna Buddhism (Nagarjuna).

The pages here deal mainly with one theme: the unity of life in an all-encompassing, infinite reality, and the comfort through the 'redemption' of meaninglessness that lies in the awareness of that reality. An awareness, according to Wordsworth, that not only consists in intellectual knowing, but also lies in emotional experience.