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Essay Archive - Analysis of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poetry
Analysis of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poetry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to those who know and understand his poems
well, exists in three modes, as Philosopher, Poet, Friend. If the truth
were told, we should all be obliged to admit that the Philosopher escapes
us. It is the opinion of many that Coleridge as Poet is almost equally an
evanescent shadow; and though the many are in this quite mistaken, they
have some excuse for thinking thus, because his fulfillment falls far short
of his promise. Due to Coleridge's complex styles of writing, the concept
and meaning of his poems can be taken in more ways th....
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