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Article: Coleridge and the pleasures of verse.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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- Studies in Romanticism
- Article date:
- December 22, 2001
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IN THE CONTEXT OF A RECENT REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN ROMANTIC LITERARY form, (1) this essay hopes to demonstrate that Samuel Taylor Coleridge is among the most purposeful practitioners of verse as verse in his era. The essay suggests that, along with his deep engagement with the shifting political scene and with philosophical and religious disputes, he cherished the particulars of willed poetic craftsmanship, and was quick to criticize in his own work and in that of others lapses in sound, whether from haste to express opinions however true or false, from lack of training, from a natively faulty sense of rhythm or weight of vowels, or from erroneous views about the ...