How To Use Coleridge In A Sentence
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And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
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The first citation for the word "ideation" in the sense of "creation of new ideas" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Week in Words
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Coleridge was thus for him the latest in a line of prospective English prosodic proselytes.
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Coleridge's distrust of the intellect as sole guide, and his belief in some kind of intuitional act being necessary to the apprehension of reality, which he felt as early as 1794, was strengthened by his study of the German transcendental philosophers, and in March 1801 he writes,
Mysticism in English Literature
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Coleridge also saw a bird in a larch tree, a ‘throstle’ or thrush in a larch appears in a version of what became his Dejection Ode.
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All is as unsubstantial, as vague and shadowy, as Coleridge's "image of a rock," or Bishop Berkeley's "ghost of a departed quantity," as he once defined a fluxion.
Life: Its True Genesis
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To say that Coleridge would not 'condescend' would be
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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Let no man's greatness be a bar to full utterance; but let temperance and charity -- duties peculiarly imperative when uttering derogatory truth -- be especially observed towards a resplendent suffering brother like Coleridge, suffering from his own weakness, but on that very account entitled to a tenderer consideration from those who are themselves endowed to feel and claim something more than common human affinity with a nature so large and so susceptive.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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His varied acquaintance included Boswell, Bentham, Godwin, Paine, and Coleridge.
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The classic literary explication of Coleridges' poem is that the river and the caverns are the human mind.
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In Frost at Midnight, Coleridge, with his young son at his side, muses on his own childhood in London, where he ‘saw nought lovely but the sky and stars’.
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Coleridge seems not to have noticed that the tenth line is actually a heptameter - unless one were to allow a double anacrusis.
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Balfour deconstructs Coleridge's affirmation of the symbol and symbolic politics by pointing to the allegorical style of his political rhetoric.
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She had once thought those lines referred to the river Axe, the sacred river that ran through the subterranean chambers and caverns and stalactites of the Cheddar gorge, but she now saw that the Alph of Xanadu was the Severn, and that the sunless sea was Coleridge's prophetic vision of the pewter post-nuclear wasteland of this estuary, spreading out westwards in the post-nuclear future towards the metallic fish-free Atlantic.
Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
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The argument in favor of hexameter is thus analogous to Coleridge's endeavor to free himself from syllabic prosody in Christabel.
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To Coleridge himself, however, his enforced departure from Ottery seemed like betrayal.
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Many a terebrant I have known who, in that capacity, to borrow a line from Coleridge,
Over the Teacups
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In the poem, Coleridge takes that ancient image of human purpose, the triumphant journey to master a world, and reverses it, turns it inside out.
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Coleridge even dreamt up a new word "Pantisocracy" to describe their new society: it meant "equal rule by all."
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This paper discusses the composition of the poem Kubla Khan by the English poet Coleridge, its revision and its meaning, especially its ideology.
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To kill one, whether or not with a crossbow, as in Coleridge's epic poem, was considered the ultimate omen of bad luck.
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The English Romantics - Samuel Coleridge in particular - imported many of these new German ideas to Britain.
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The doubts maturing in Coleridge's own mind concerning events that summer blossomed alarmingly at the end of September.
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Coleridge's text may have been keelhauled, but the show still charts a course through it.
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Yet if you choose to prefer Coleridges explanation, no great harm will be done: since Coleridge, who may be presumed to have understood it, promptly goes on to deduce that, as the elements of metre owe their existence to a state of increased excitement, so the metre itself should be accompanied by the natural language of excitement. which is precisely where we found ourselves, save that where Coleridge uses the word excitement we used the word emotion.
IV. On the Capital Difficulty of Verse
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In fact it is likely that Coleridge, who was himself a contributor to the Monthly Magazine, read some or all of these correspondences.
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Anthony Appiah understands cosmopolitanism as a rigorously educated personal attitude or disposition toward the world — Coleridge more thoroughly secularizes that cosmopolitan perspective.
Romantic Fear
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We know that he valued Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, and one of the most wonderful of his later poems raids Coleridge for its closing phraseology.
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(if indeed the word can be applied to what is really a catalogue of the results of a transcendental intuition) of the essential difference between the reason and the understanding -- a distinction which Coleridge has himself elsewhere described as preeminently the _gradus ad philosophiam, _ and might well have called its _pons asinorum.
English Men of Letters: Coleridge
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Kendal, whither I had sent all my clothes and viatica; from thence to go to London, and to see whether or no I could arrange my pecuniary matters, so as leaving Mrs. Coleridge all that was necessary to her comforts, to go myself to Madeira, having a persuasion, strong as the life within me, that one winter spent in a really warm, genial climate, would completely restore me.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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Coleridge also has some very choice remarks on the subject: "I will note down the fundamental characteristics which contradistinguish the ancient literature from the modern generally, but which more especially appear in prominence in the tragic drama.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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After all, Coleridge had not drunk ayahuasca, he had taken tincture of opium.
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Essentially, creativity, as Coleridge sees it, comes down to the ability to perceive the whole picture.
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Unitarianism, a tolerant and loosely-defined system of belief, had attracted Coleridge since his Cambridge years.
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There are other novelists who seem to be able to remake themselves drastically from one novel to the next, and can find any number of grooves for their ‘esemplastic’ (Coleridge's wonderful word) genius.
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Coleridge wants to still the perpetually disruptive psychosomatic body of evidence that is specifically tied to his constipated and opiated condition.
Introduction
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And they're visible most particularly in two aspects of church life: one is the powerfully strong commitment to synodical government, the participation of all members of the body of Christ in its decision-making; and the other is in the really remarkable embrace of indigenous culture that characterised Selwyn's mission and was echoed in the sacrificial work of John Coleridge Patteson, a martyr of Melanesia.
Archbishop Celebrates Selwyn College's 125th Anniversary
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This anti-visual rhetoric of interiority is prevalent in much Romantic writing, from Keats's longing to escape on ‘the viewless wings of poesy,’ to Coleridge and Wordsworth's denunciation of the ‘despotism of the eye.’
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Her sensitive awareness to subtle natural effects were such that Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William's friend and fellow poet, considered her to be the equivalent of a perfect "electrometer" -- a "fragile piece of gold" able to measure tiny changes in electrical pulses.
Friend, Soulmate and Sister
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While failing often to catch the gusto of ancient poetry -- witness his translations from Chaucer -- Wordsworth was full of the spirit -- witness his rifacimento of The Owl and the Nightingale --and, best of all, handed it on to Coleridge.
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
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� It is amusing to read of John Keats, consumptive former medical student, as a pioneer of the silent cinema; of Reverend Wordsworth and Professor Coleridge, leaders of a thriving Pantisocratic community in
_The Difference Engine_ in the Romantics Classroom
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[Coleridge and Southey] threw themselves into planning Pantisocracy: an experimental and ideal community founded on human reason and directed toward human perfection.
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Metrically, the ‘Hymn’ justifies Coleridge's claims for the English hexameter.
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Ford's and Crashaw's rival Nightingales -- why they have been dissertated on by Wordsworth and Coleridge, then by Lamb and Hazlitt, then worked to death by Hunt, who printed them entire and quoted them to pieces again, in every periodical he was ever engaged upon; and yet after all, here 'Philip' -- 'must read' (out of a roll of dropping papers with yellow ink tracings, so old!) something at which 'John' claps his hands and says 'Really -- that these ancients should own so much wit & c.'!
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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Coleridge had taken with him to Malta, "when the light of sense/Goes out," other presences and articulations emerge in a "flash" to fill the gap, an "invisible world" or other life of things (Wallace Stevens calls it "ghostlier demarcations") that it was the particular business of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and their age to express.
Introduction
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The reader might also raise a skeptical eyebrow when the poet proceeds to describe the singing nightingale as "disburthen [ing]" his "full soul" in an expressive activity analogous to the actions of Coleridge's own proper poet, who similarly "surrender [s] his whole spirit" (48, 29).
'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806
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To the Romantic sensibility such a [dualist] universe could not be endured, and the central enterprise common to many post-Kantian German philosophers and poets, as well as to Coleridge and Wordsworth, was to join together the ‘subject 'and ‘object' that modern intellection had put asunder, and thus to revivify a dead nature, restore its concreteness, significance, and human values, and re-domiciliate man in a world which had become alien to him.
Byron and Romantic Occidentalism
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Ryder is akin to Coleridge, too, for there is a direct visional analogy between "The Flying Dutchman" and the excessively pictorial stanzas of "The Ancient Mariner.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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It is possible to suspect that at some stage a copyist or editor misread ‘ease’ as ‘cure’ (easy to do, in fact, in Coleridge's hand).
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Coleridge, who had desponded at the fate of Middleton, after the unsuccessful attempts he made to obtain a fellowship, lost all hope of procuring an income from the college, and as, through the instrumentality of Frend, with whom an intimacy had now taken place, he had been converted to what in these days is called Unitarianism, he was too conscientious to take orders and enter the Established Church.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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The attempt to separate God from Nature will mistify the clearest head: not even Coleridge could wade the depths of this vulgar Theology.
An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles
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Coleridge's life and Blake's mythologization of the psychosomatics of Milton moving at once inspirationally and with painful apocalyptic dread through Blake's bowels
Notes on 'Introduction'
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She took laudanum for this, as was the fashion, a habit that brought her to the attention of a fellow poet, the opium addict Coleridge.
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Coleridge wrote remorsefully acknowledging 'a certain tipsiness '-- not that he felt any' unpleasant titubancy '-- whereby he had been seduced into defending a momentary idea as if it had been an old and firmly established principle; which (we may add) has been the way of other talkers since Coleridge.
Studies in Literature and History
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In considering William Wordsworth's sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the essay investigates the virtues and vices of ambience, as opposed to a more Burkean, "maximalist" view of the natural world.
Abstracts
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The English Lake District is classic ground for students of Wordsworth and Coleridge.
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This anti-visual rhetoric of interiority is prevalent in much Romantic writing, from Keats's longing to escape on ‘the viewless wings of poesy,’ to Coleridge and Wordsworth's denunciation of the ‘despotism of the eye.’
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Coleridge was evidently one of those people who abase themselves excessively in the hope of never having to hear their faults expressed on the lips of others.
Wordsworth & Coleridge II « Tales from the Reading Room
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It was not that Coleridge was unaware of his failings – in fact he was horribly conscious of them, particularly his ability to procrastinate: ‘I am a Starling, self-incaged and always in the Moult, and my whole Note is, Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.’
2010 May « Tales from the Reading Room
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Both Wordsworth and Coleridge left Cambridge with a love of literature, and a revolutionary fervor that would only exacerbate their troubles.
Wordsworth & Coleridge I « Tales from the Reading Room
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Coleridge, and jam it down my throat; or I'll aroint myself.
The Clarion
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The Rev. John Coleridge wrote an exegetical work on the Book of Judges; we doubt whether Walker could have spelt _exegetical_.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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Lamb would lend books to Coleridge, and they would come back with annotations as long as the text.
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She and one guy (Eddie) escape in a "peddle"-powered (seriously, that's how it's spelled) submarine, and out in the ocean, they meet a strange zombie thing who calls himself Coleridge and is apparently curse-bound to recite "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (and, if you don't know it, holy crap is it a long poem!) to them.
What I bought – 30 January 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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In 1818 he attacked Coleridge savagely in a magazine edited by his son-in-law.
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That evangelical faith in the transformative power of education that sustained Du Bois until the end was at open throttle in “The Immortal Child,” a sometimes lyrical evocation of the short, extraordinary career of his friend, the Afro-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
DARKWATER
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But surely you are on target, John, about who and what is out of touch by virtue of an imagination worthy of a heavily opiated Coleridge.
In these tough times at least people are still buying missiles « Antiwar.com Blog
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The Lake DistrictLake poets William Wordsworth, Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey of the 19 th century.
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Coleridge had developed an apparently relaxed, but in fact extremely clever style of blank verse.
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Coleridge's attack on the "beggarly daydreaming" of romance reading noted that "the whole material and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving fantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose" (1975, 28).
Reading Machines
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Who would prefer that Coleridge be Schelling?), but his career as a writer in motley genres and sundry places was enabled by his vacillation, his apostasies, the intractable irritability of his text.
Site One: A Romantic Education.
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The fullest exposition of Coleridge's thought can be found in the States-man's Manual.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge said in the introduction to his epic poem Kubla Khan that he had ‘heard’ the whole thing in an opium-induced slumber.
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American author whose books, as _books_, obtained recognition abroad; whose name was thought worthy of mention beside the names of English contemporary authors, like Byron, Scott, and Coleridge.
Initial Studies in American Letters
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It is conceded that Coleridge is infinitely wise, but composes poems to exemplify "prosaically" a laughable theory.
Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America
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Coleridge wrote that ‘My many weaknesses are of some advantage to me; they unite me more with the great mass of my fellow-beings – but dear Wordsworth appears to me to have hurtfully segregated and isolated his being.’
Wordsworth & Coleridge II « Tales from the Reading Room
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Coleridge had developed an apparently relaxed, but in fact extremely clever style of blank verse.
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Southey and Coleridge had been on somewhat strained terms for some time; possibly, as I have said in the previous note, owing to Southey's abandonment of Pantisocratic fervour, which anticipated Coleridge's by some months.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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That Hazlitt learned to express his thoughts “in motley imagery or quaint allusion”, that his understanding “ever found a language to express itself, I owe to Coleridge”, he later wrote.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Coleridge uses his poetic creativity to achieve his end, questioning, exploring and explaining.
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Jackson takes us through several case studies of marginalia - from Coleridge's many annotations to anonymous comments in library copies.
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Wordsworth, Coleridge and Dorothy have been too much revered by their admirers, and their common humanity played down.
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The fullest exposition of Coleridge's thought can be found in the States-man's Manual.
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The _Table Talk_, edited by Mr. Nelson Coleridge, shows how pregnant, how pithy, how full of subtle observation, and often also of playful humour, could be the talk of the great discourser in its lighter and more colloquial forms.
English Men of Letters: Coleridge
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I have it on good authority that STColeridge and all the Pantisocratic band are with you on this!
Our own Mary Jeys | clusterflock
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Coleridge, being more of a philosopher, turned to Unitarianism; Newman, a devotionist, to Roman Catholicism.
The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses
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Such were Coleridge's peculiarities, which were sometimes construed into irregularities; but through his whole life, attracting notice by his splendid genius, he fell too often under the observation of men who busied themselves in magnifying small things, and minifying large ones.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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Coleridge was in many ways far ahead of his time.
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But such paintings are “in time,” and stylistic critics such as Leo Spitzer (1962) and Murray Krieger (1967) argue specifically, and Coleridge and Croce generally, that literature is an object or artifact, that poetry can ultimately be spatial or “still,” that the reader com - bines the sequential details into a spatial moment, that
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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But Coleridge in fact worked on many drafts before the final one; his tale of a drug-induced creative flash was a fiction.
The Stranger Within
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Coleridge was far ahead of his time in his understanding of the unconscious.
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Coleridge also has some very choice remarks on the subject: “I will note down the fundamental characteristics which contradistinguish the ancient literature from the modern generally, but which more especially appear in prominence in the tragic drama.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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Coleridge, are amalgamated and consubstantiated with his native thought.
Milton
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Coleridge, "With blood was it planted; it was rocked in tempests; the goat, the ass, and the stag gnawed it, the wild boar whetted its tusk upon its bark; the deep scars are still extant on its trunk, and the path of the lightning may be traced among its higher branches!
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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But Mr. Coleridge immediately shielded the craniologist under the distinction preserved in the text, and perhaps, since that time, there may be a couple of organs assigned to the latter faculty.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Christabel," more than anything of Coleridge, is composed like music; you might set at the side of each section, especially of the opening, _largo, vivacissimo_, and, as the general expression signature, _tempo rubato_.
Poems of Coleridge
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I believe "clerisy" was first mentioned by Coleridge who wrote about the intellectual elite would be responsible to distribute culture throughout the (English) nation.
The Bourgeoisie and the Clerisy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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That evangelical faith in the transformative power of education that sustained Du Bois until the end was at open throttle in “The Immortal Child,” a sometimes lyrical evocation of the short, extraordinary career of his friend, the Afro-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
DARKWATER
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The mistake about the bassoon is a small one, and is, I suppose, borrowed from Coleridge, but it is characteristic.
The Art of Letters
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But that needn't preclude us from savouring just what makes Coleridge's little "morceau" so delicious for our consideration of Hazlitt's periodical criticism.
Periodical Indigestion
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Now it is the equivalenced octosyllable of the Coleridgean stamp rather than of Scott's or
Matthew Arnold
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Coleridge was to spend the next thirty years attacking rationalism.
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Coleridge, the profoundest of critics, calls him "an oceanic mind," and this language, as expressing the idea of multitudinous unity, is none too big for him; Hallam, the severest of critics, describes him as "thousand-souled," and this has grown into common use as no more than just; another writer makes his peculiarity to consist in "an infinite delicacy of mind"; and whatsoever of truth and fitness there may be in any or all of these expression's has a just exponent in his style.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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“Unity in multiplicity” is Coleridge's favorite aes - thetic formula, which he repeats in many guises (“unity in multeity,” il più nell'uno, etc.).
ORGANICISM
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Coleridge was in many ways far ahead of his time.
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Plato remarks in the Republic that the great liberator is also the great enslaver: and this was the hard political text learned by Romantic poets through most of Coleridge's lifetime.
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Coleridge also gave lectures on general literature and philosophy, which have survived in the form of notes and shorthand reports.
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The Devil's Walk: A Ballad" again addresses, this time much more overtly, the older generation of poetic turncoats: it parodies Southey's and Coleridge's jointly written "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 in ways that are quite different from and yet prefigure Shelley's masterpiece in this mode, the brilliant burlesquing of Wordsworth in Peter Bell the Third.
Young Shelley
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Coleridge, the profoundest of critics, calls him “an oceanic mind,” and this language, as expressing the idea of multitudinous unity, is none too big for him;
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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The distinction casts light on Coleridge's prosodic jottings in his notebooks, but is not directly germane to the present concern.
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At that time, Coleridge was the radical begetter of the Lyrical Ballads; and had he expired, he would, Holmes suggested, have been recalled as a meteoric talent, that - like that of Keats or Shelley - had burned all the brighter for its very brevity.
Jura Duty
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In returning to the passage we started with, two points should arrest us: Coleridge's desire to achieve the momentary respite of an "unstimulated Nature" and the gesture toward faith.
Introduction
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For his retro-ballad of 1798, Coleridge recalls swound as a forgotten sound, an archaeology unearthed: it's swoon old-form (same etymology), [14] and (even better!) a variant of sound.
Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
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I am the last person in the world to press conclusions harshly or uncandidly against Coleridge, but I believe it to be notorious that he first began the use of opium not as a relief from any bodily pains or nervous irritations -- for his constitution was strong and excellent -- but as a source of luxurious sensation.
The Opium Habit
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Fuseli and Coleridge falsely apply the term imitation, making "a distinction between imitation and copying, representing the first as the legitimate function of art -- the latter as its corruption.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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I prefer to think of Cowper as a naturalist, of Shelley as an idealist, and of Wordsworth as a transcendental realist, and to reserve the name romanticist for writers like Scott, Coleridge, and Keats; and I think the distinction a serviceable one.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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It was a wonderful London which within the same twenty years could harbour three men, like Blake, Coleridge and Shelley, in whom the incondite spirit which we call genius dwelt so near the surface of conscious being, and had such freedom to range.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
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-- Because it is based on a knowledge of the God-world; because her eyes were focused for the things 'on the other side of the sky'; because this world, for her, was a mere reflexion and thin concealment of the other, and the mists between her and the Divine 'defecate' constantly, in Coleridge's curious phrase, 'to a clear transparency.'
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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With its converse insight into the modality of romantic apostasy, this volatile epigram is nothing less than the fulcrum with which we can gain sufficient purchase to negotiate the critical conversions of Coleridgean recantation, from the odes of the 1790s through the desultory journalism of the 1800s and 1810s to the "Logosophia" of 1817 and after.
The Multeity of Coleridgean Apostasy
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Coleridge has a note dated 1800 (_Literary Remains_, i. 292), on "egotizing in _tuism_" but it was not included in Southey's _Omniana_ of 1812, and must have been unknown to Byron.] {576} [778] [Sc. _toilette_, a Gallicism.] [779] [Byron loved to make fact and fancy walk together, but, here, his memory played him false, or his art kept him true.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
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Essentially, creativity, as Coleridge sees it, comes down to the ability to perceive the whole picture.
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The argument in favor of hexameter is thus analogous to Coleridge's endeavor to free himself from syllabic prosody in Christabel.
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Shelley may have first seen the word in "The Ancient Mariner"; but he employs it more correctly than Coleridge, who seems to have mistaken it for a preterite-form (= 'uprose') whereas in truth it serves either as the third person singular of the present (= 'upriseth'), or, as here, for the verbal substantive (= 'uprising').
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1
