Analysis Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poetry

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to certain places. They were
composed as the expression of feelings which were occasioned by quite
definite events. Between the lines, when we know their meaning, we catch
glimpses of those delightful people who formed the golden inner circle of
his friends in the days of his young manhood. They may all be termed, as
Coleridge himself names one or two of them, Conversation Poems, for even
when they are soliloquies the sociable man who wrote them could not even
think without supposing a listener. They require and reward considerable
knowledge of his life and especially the life of his heart.
This is not so certainly the case with his three famous Mystery
Poems, in which the spellbound reader sees visions and hears music which
float in from a magic realm and float out again into unfathomable space.
Their perfection not of this world nor founded on history of circumstances.
No knowledge of their origin or mechanism can increase their beauty or
enrich their charm. To ...

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in others and others in ourselves. It is
the friendly art. It ignores time and space. National, racial, and
secular differences fall at its touch, which is the touch of kinship, and
when we feel this we laugh shamefacedly at our pretensions, timidity's, and
reserves. Everything in antiquity is antiquated except its art and
especially its poetry. That is scarcely less fresh than when it fell first
from living lips. The religion of the ancients is to us superstition,
their science childishness, but their poetry is as valid and vital as our
own.
It is the nature of all great poetry to open and bring together the
hearts of men. And few poets have so generously given themselves ...

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